Pete Dexter (Author of Paris Trout)
Pete Dexter

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Pete Dexter


Born
in Pontiac (Michigan), The United States
July 22, 1943

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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.

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Average rating: 3.83 · 19,978 ratings · 2,039 reviews · 14 distinct worksSimilar authors
Paris Trout

3.88 avg rating — 6,879 ratings — published 1988 — 49 editions
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Deadwood

4.02 avg rating — 4,078 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions
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The Paperboy

3.61 avg rating — 3,635 ratings — published 1995 — 56 editions
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Spooner

3.68 avg rating — 2,355 ratings — published 2009 — 29 editions
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Train

3.77 avg rating — 1,260 ratings — published 2003 — 38 editions
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God's Pocket

3.79 avg rating — 778 ratings — published 1983 — 30 editions
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Brotherly Love

3.83 avg rating — 681 ratings — published 1991 — 31 editions
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Paper Trails: True Stories ...

3.99 avg rating — 351 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions
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ブラザリー・ラヴ

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パリス・トラウト (Hayakawa Novels)

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“I was tired in ways that had nothing to do with sleep. It occurred to me, sitting in the car with her, that I had been trying to hold too many things together that were meant to fall apart.”
Pete Dexter, The Paperboy

“In the beginning the stories were long and colored, but as he grew old and his eyes clouded, the stories were told in only a few words, and she came to understand that all the colors had fallen away from him, leaving only the moments. A woman who performed tricks in the air, an animal pulling a boat under water, dead children who spoke in bones. A man who loved bottles.”
Pete Dexter, Deadwood

“Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none.”
Pete Dexter, The Paperboy

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