Paris Trout is a novel of limited scope, but what it takes on it accomplishes brilliantly. This is not a novel about racism, or life in a Southern town circa1960. The title of this masterful little novel clues us to the author’s intent. Paris Trout is primarily a character study. What we have...
This is a riveting if disturbing novel that takes place in North Florida in the late 1960's. North Florida has it all, the beautiful beaches of St. Augustine, the gator-rich St. John's River that is home to numerous colorful, if inbred, swamp families; it has the State Penitentiary in the town o...
What would have happened if Tiger Woods had lived 60 years earlier? Lionel "Train" Walk scrapes by as a caddie in 1950's southern California country club. He has a natural athletic ability for the game and a keen sense of observation. He is clearly very intelligent. His part of the story is writ...
Book Review by: Sharon Powers. "Leon Hubbard had worried most everybody on the crew at one time or another, he'd even touched something in Peets. It wasn't the razor--Peets had taken razors away from people, that was as simple as understanding you were going to get cut--it was something in th...
Pete Dexter's novel voice is loquacious and colloquial, somewhat stiff and formal, though supple. It is not a contemporary voice, and it's kin to Twain, with some paring down of his flourishes, a la Hemingway. The voice is omniscient, though it hovers intimately in the minds of many of the charac...
brotherly love is the second book i've read by pete dexter. i have to say, i like this guy. brotherly love took place in philadelphia, over a 20 or 30 year period. it followed this boy from his early childhood to his early twenties. he was part of a mob family, watched his sister and father die, ...