PARIS TROUT, Pete Dexter
PARIS TROUT, Pete Dexter
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PARIS TROUT

Author: Pete Dexter

Narrator: Charles S. Dutton

Abridged: 2 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 03/06/2007


Synopsis

A respected white citizen of Cotton Point, Georgia, Paris Trout is a shopkeeper, a money-lender, and a murderer of blacks. And his friends, family and foes do not realize the danger they face in a man who simply will not see his own guilt.

About Pete Dexter

Pete Dexter is the author of the National Book Award-winning novel Paris Trout and five other novels: God's Pocket, Deadwood, Brotherly Love, The Paperboy, and Train. He has been a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Sacramento Bee, and has contributed to many magazines, including Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and Playboy. His screenplays include Rush and Mulholland Falls. Dexter was born in Michigan and raised in Georgia, Illinois, and eastern South Dakota. He lives on an island off the coast of Washington.Rob Fleder was executive editor of Sports Illustrated and the editor of SI Books during his twenty years at Time Inc. He was the editor of Sports Illustrated 50th Anniversary Book, Sports Illustrated: The Baseball Book, Sports Illustrated: The Football Book, and Hate Mail from Cheerleaders, among other New York Times bestsellers.


Reviews

Goodreads review by J. on January 12, 2016

The writers I enjoy most are men of few words. So much can be said with so little when done right and it's a testament to the mastery of the written word when an author achieves this. Like Cormac McCarthy, Pete Dexter's prose has just as much to do with what is left unsaid, as with what has been spo......more

Goodreads review by Fabian on September 09, 2020

What does the name evoke? (It is definitely not at all whatever your mind conjours forth.) Glamour; no less luxury--the poshest of all European capitals--Paris of France that is. & a trout is a despicably delicious foodstuff, but slimy member of the undertow no less. It's positively an oxymoron! Lik......more

Goodreads review by Lawyer on February 06, 2018

Paris Trout: Slipping Into Darkness Paris Trout by Pete Dexter was chosen as a group read by members of On the Southern Literary Trail for February, 2018. This novel received the National Book Award for 1988. “Just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born? T......more

Goodreads review by Paul on January 31, 2012

So much better than Paris Hilton. But not quite as good as Paris France - it would be an unfair comparison. As for Paris Texas, yeah, better than the film, which I thought had a nice soundtrack but was a leetle bit on the wanky side, as many European-auteurs-in-America turn out to be. I could also say......more

Goodreads review by Tara on September 11, 2020

Paris Trout is the most replusive character that I have ever encountered. It was difficult not to become emotionally involved in this sombering story - I wanted to shoot the s.o.b. and shove a baseball bat, barrel first, up his arse - I loved it and would highly recommend.......more