Paris_Trout_(novel)

<i>Paris Trout</i> (novel)

Paris Trout (novel)

1988 novel by Pete Dexter

Paris Trout is a 1988 American novel written by Pete Dexter.[1] It was the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.[2]

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The novel was adapted into a film of the same name.[3]

Plot

In a small Georgia town in the 1950s, a bigoted store owner named Paris Trout kills a black man's younger sister and wounds his mother when a car deal between them goes wrong.

Critical reception

The Los Angeles Times called the novel "a masterpiece, complex and breath-taking."[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Mason, Deborah (July 24, 1988). "UNEXAMINED LIVES IN COTTON POINT". The New York Times.
  2. [2]
    "National Book Awards – 1988". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
  3. [3]
    O'Connor, John J. (April 19, 1991). "TV Weekend; The Evil That Can't Be Buried, in 'Paris Trout'". The New York Times.
  4. [4]
    "A Perfect Right to Break the Law : PARIS TROUT: by Pete Dexter (Random House: $17.95; 304 pp.)". Los Angeles Times. July 24, 1988.
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