Pete Dexter

Writer

Pete Dexter is an American novelist and former journalist, author of Paris Trout (published in Italian as Il cuore nero di Paris Trout). Paris Trout won the National Book Award for Fiction.

Paris Trout (originally published 1988) won the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel is set in 1950s Georgia and deals explicitly with racism, violence, and small-town injustice. The book was adapted into a 1991 film of the same name starring Dennis Hopper, Ed Harris, and Barbara Hershey (mentioned in the review).

A close, unsparing reading of Paris Trout highlighting its brutal depiction of racism and small-town violence. The review praises sharp dialogue and detail, notes the book's National Book Award, and warns sensitive readers about the harrowing ending. Recommended to readers of dark American literary fiction.

For:Readers of literary Southern fiction, noir, and legal-thriller hybrids; those interested in novels about race, small-town America, and moral complexity.

 Suddenly, without any warning signs, a series of minor events begins, triggering an unstoppable avalanche of violence and oppression, along with the often hypocritical attempts to put an end to the impending disaster.

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