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Pete Dexter's National Book Award-winning tour de force tells the mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that shatters lives and exposes the hypocrisies of a small Southern town. The time and place: Cotton Point, Georgia, just after World War II. The event: the murder of a fourteen-year-old black girl by a respected white citizen named Paris Trout, who feels he's done absolutely nothing wrong. As a trial looms, the crime eats away at the social...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE In this striking debut from the author of the National Book Award winner Paris Trout, Pete Dexter chronicles a murder and its consequences in the fictional blue-collar Philadelphia neighborhood of God's Pocket. Leon Hubbard makes other men nervous, talking to himself or anyone who will listen about the things he's cut with his straight razor. So when he crosses the wrong guy on a South Philly construction site and wi...

DEADWOOD, DAKOTA TERRITORIES, 1876: Legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickcock and his friend Charlie Utter have come to the Black Hills town of Deadwood fresh from Cheyenne, fleeing an ungrateful populace. Bill, aging and sick but still able to best any man in a fair gunfight, just wants to be left alone to drink and play cards. But in this town of played-out miners, bounty hunters, upstairs girls, Chinese immigrants, and various other entrepeneurs ...

The sun was rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call was found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck was tried, sentenced, and set to fry.Then Ward James, hotshot investigative reporter for the Miami Times, returns to his rural hometown with a death row femme fatale who promises him the story of the decade. She's armed with explosive evidence, aiming to free--and meet--her convicted "fiancÚ."With Ward's ...

In the City of Brotherly Love, a car skids off the ice and ignites a chain of events that changes everything for eight-year-old Peter Flood. Peter's father is a powerful man, a union boss with mob connections, but all the power in the world is useless to a grieving son. Raised by his uncle, Peter tries to distance himself from the casual brutality of the family business, gravitating instead toward a small South Philly gym. Peter's cousin Micha...

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Train is an 18-year-old black caddy at an exclusive L.A. country club. He is a golf prodigy, but the year is 1953 and there is no such thing as a black golf prodigy. Nevertheless, Train draws the interest of Miller Packard, a gambler whose smiling, distracted air earned him the nickname "the Mile Away Man." Packard's easy manner hides a proclivity for violence, and he remains an enigma to Train even months later when they are winning high stak...

DEADWOOD, DAKOTA TERRITORIES, 1876: Legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickcock and his friend Charlie Utter have come to the Black Hills town of Deadwood fresh from Cheyenne, fleeing an ungrateful populace. Bill, aging and sick but still able to best any man in a fair gunfight, just wants to be left alone to drink and play cards. But in this town of played-out miners, bounty hunters, upstairs girls, Chinese immigrants, and various other entrepeneurs ...

Leon Hubbard ha 24 anni, fa il muratore in un cantiere di Filadelfia. È la disperazione del suo caposquadra, perché è sempre in cerca di guai. Non perde mai occasione di estrarre il rasoio, ci fa tutto, con quella lama. Un giorno, però, ci fa qualcosa di sbagliato. Lo piazza sotto la gola di un collega, il quale per tutta risposta gli fracassa il cranio. Quando la polizia giunge sul posto, il caposquadra fornisce una versione di comodo. Tutti ...

Quando all'improvviso una macchina va fuori controllo e investe la sorellina, per Peter Flood, che ha otto anni, tutto cambia istantaneamente. Suo padre, che è un uomo di potere, un boss del sindacato di Filadelfia legato alla mafia locale, nulla può contro il dolore sconfinato della perdita e il parossismo di violenza familiare che finirà per lasciare Peter orfano. Cresciuto dallo zio, Peter cercherà per tutta la vita di tenersi alla larga da...

Lionel Walk, better known as Train, is a young black caddy at an elite Los Angeles golf course, where he comes to know a police detective he calls 'The Mile-Away Man'. Keeping his head down, he navigates his way between the careless brutality of the other caddies.

In trade paperback. National Book Award winner Pete Dexter has written a supremely impressive piece of fiction that is clearly the novel of his life, the book he was born to write. Pete Dexter's new novel follows Warren SPOONER, a good man who is forced to deal with a reckless stepson who is hell-bent on self-destruction. 'One of the greatest American writers...a storyteller who cuts straight to the nerve."-Scott L. Turow.

BOOK DESCRIPTION: Lionel Walk, better known as Train, is a young black caddy at an elite Los Angeles golf course. Keeping his head down and playing a few rounds during off-hours, he navigates his way between the careless hostility of patrons and the volatile brutality of the other caddies. Along the way, Train finds an unexpected and enigmatical ally in an unassuming guest at the club, a police detective he calls "the Mile-Away Man." Norah Sti...