Pete Dexter, Author . Doubleday $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-50591-8
National Book Award winner Dexter's new book is about pain: the men and women who deliver the emotional and physical blows and the limits of those who bend and break beneath them. This is a theme that runs like a dark thread through Dexter's
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Pete Dexter, Author . Grand Central $26.99 (469p) ISBN 978-0-446-54072-8
What can you do when your twin brother, dead at birth, is your mother's favorite? This is only one of the burdens placed on young Warren Spooner, the hero of National Book Award–winner Dexter's calamitously funny and riotously tragic
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Pete Dexter, Author Random House Inc $23 (307p) ISBN 978-0-679-42175-7
Moat County, Fla., is located where the St. John's River flows north-a geographical rarity and, in literature, a signal that we've entered the strange and violent world of National Book Award-winner Dexter (Paris Trout). Narrator Jack James is the...
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Pete Dexter, Author Penguin Books $15 (306p) ISBN 978-0-14-012206-0
In what PW described as ``an expertly crafted and bleakly fascinating tale of social conflict and madness in the deep South,'' the eponymous protagonist of this National Book Award-winning novel murders a black child while collecting a debt and is...
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Pete Dexter, Author Random House (NY) $17.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-394-56370-1
An expertly crafted and bleakly fascinating tale of social conflict and madness in the deep South, this novel centers on the eponymous Paris Trout, owner of a general store and other property in Cotton Point, Ga., during the years just after World...
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Pete Dexter, Author Penguin Books $14 (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-016773-3
This gripping narrative of fratricidal betrayal by the National Book Award-winning author of Paris Trout was cited in PW 's annual ``red-and-black'' feature as having failed significantly in hardcover to live up to its publisher's sales expectations.
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Pete Dexter, Author, Rob Fleder, Editor . Ecco $25.95 (289p) ISBN 978-0-06-118935-7
In this sprawling collection of finely etched prose, noted novelist Dexter (Paris Trout
) lays bare the darker workings of the human experience. Assembled mostly from his newspaper columns for the Philadelphia Inquirer
and the Sacramento Bee,
...
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