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Dexter, Pete : Paris Trout

Random House, New York, 1988

First Edition, Second Printing. Signed and dated by Pete Dexter on front free endpaper in black ink: "Pete Dexter, 8/2[7?]/88." Original publisher's black paper-covered boards backed with black cloth. Original white paper dust jacket included. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed mylar sleeve. Copper-foil lettering on book spine and copper-foil decorations on front cover. Small color illustration on front panel. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2." 306 pages, complete. Pages and covers are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Dust jacket is very clean and intact except for slight age toning and a small stain in the lower-left corner of the back flap not affecting text. Dust jacket not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket. Pete Dexter (b. 1943) is an American novelist. He won the 1988 National Book Award for this book. Excerpt from the front flap: "The time and place: Cotton Point, a small Georgia town, just after World War II. The event: the murder of a fourteen-year-old black girl by a white man named Paris Trout, who feels he's done absolutely nothing wrong. With razor-sharp precision, Pete Dexter etches a picture of a brutal killing and its effects on this small Southern town. Just as an acid continues to bit farther and farther into a surface, so the act continues to eat away at the social fabric of the town, through its manners and civility, relentlessly exposing the personalities of its inhabitants: Paris Trout--dominating, intimidating, obsessed, in ever-widening circles.". Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fine

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