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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Books by Pete Dexter

Average rating: 3.75 · 4,320 ratings · 727 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Paris Trout 3.81 avg rating — 1,403 ratings — published 1988 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Spooner 3.52 avg rating — 910 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Deadwood 3.92 avg rating — 648 ratings — published 1986 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Paperboy 3.75 avg rating — 497 ratings — published 1995 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Train: A Novel 3.69 avg rating — 420 ratings — published 2003 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Brotherly Love 3.84 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions	My rating:
	God's Pocket 3.86 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1984 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not About Marriage by Pete Dexter, Rob Fleder (Editor) 3.93 avg rating — 122 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Cotton Point by Pete Dexter, Anny Amberni (Traduction) 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Mulholland Falls: Tie In 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:

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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

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“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

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“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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