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, ...
Pictures were taken of everything and two shots of Spooner’s brain were fastened onto a lighted viewing board where the brain surgeon studied them, back and forth, apparently disapproving of everything he saw. Spooner tried to engage the doctor, asking if one of the pictures might show why he’d b...
He rewound the tape recorder, and began to switch it on and off writing down what he'd said on the way to work. He called it "A Love Affair with the City." It started out, "I have written the story of this city for twenty years. Twenty years today . . ." and was five hundred words deep when the P...
He had been with Lurline again the night before, at it one way or another all night long, but the heat was in him again. "I missed you at Bill's funeral," she said. "I never had the opportunity to tell you how sorry I felt." She was still holding the package. "He seemed like such a gentle man," s...