Paris Trout : A Novel (Paperback)

from jeffsdfw

Pete Dexter again shows us why he is one of the best writers out there. The book focus's around Paris Trout. A business man who take re-payment of a loan too far. Dexter will have you sucked in, and you will not be able to put this one down.

from Hagelstein

Paris Trout is both a relentless and subtle novel. It starts out disturbing and never really lets up. In Cotton Point, Ether County, Georgia, Paris Trout, a local businessman and money lender to the poor, shoots and kills Rosie Sayers, a young black girl, in an altercation about money owed him. R...

from BooksOn23rd

PARIS TROUT, the National Book Award Winner for Fiction in 1988, is a flawless work. Paris Trout is a resident of Cotton Point, Georgia; an arrogant solitary man who abuses his wife both psychologically and physically, he commits a crime which sends reverberations throughout the community.Paris' ...

from nikon

Jeeze I love this book! You know what its like - some books start off with a bang, some end on one and some, like this one, has bangs and crackers and fireworks of all kinds of squibs going off all the way through it. Paris Trout is odd thats for sure but odd in that 'I've got this weird neighbou...

from swl

This is the finest book I've read in a long time, and I don't know how it is that I never heard of it until seeing PD speak last month in Oakland (he was reading from a new collection of his columns). I was 25 when it came out so my reading tastes were still "developing" (i.e., not very good.:) I...