Pete Dexter





Pete Dexter

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Pete Dexter, b.1943, 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: 3.75 · 4,320 ratings · 727 reviews · 10 distinct works
Paris Trout
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 1,403 ratings — published 1988 — 16 editions
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Spooner
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 910 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions
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Deadwood
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 648 ratings — published 1986 — 9 editions
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The Paperboy
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 497 ratings — published 1995 — 17 editions
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Train: A Novel
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 420 ratings — published 2003 — 13 editions
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Brotherly Love
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions
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God's Pocket
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1984 — 10 editions
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 122 ratings6 editions
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Cotton Point
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3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions
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Mulholland Falls: Tie In
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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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

“He scart me," the girl said.

Miss Mary nodded and looked over at her in a slow, tired way. "That's your common sense talkin'," she said. "That man scare anybody got common sense.”
Pete Dexter, Paris Trout

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