Paris trout [electronic resource] : a novel / Pete Dexter.
Pete Dexter's National Book Award-winning tour de force tells the mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that shatters lives and exposes the hypocrisies of a small Southern town. The time and place: Cotton Point, Georgia, just after World War II. The event: the murder of a fourteen-year-old black girl by a respected white citizen named Paris Trout, who feels he's done absolutely nothing wrong. As a trial looms, the crime eats away at the social fabric of Cotton Point, through its facade of manners and civility. Trout's indifference haunts his defense lawyer; his festering paranoia warps his timid, quiet wife; and Trout himself moves closer to madness as he becomes obsessed with his cause--and his vendettas. -- --William Styron "Dexter's powerfully emotional novel doesn't have any brakes. Hang on, because you won't be able to stop until the finish."--Chicago Tribune
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- ISBN: 9780812987393
- ISBN: 081298739X
- Physical Description: 1 online resource.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014.
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Source of Description Note: | Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed June 19, 2014). |
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Genre: | Electronic books. Fiction. Historical fiction. Downloadable e-Books. |