Deadwood
by Pete Dexter
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Author: Pete DexterEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-07-12
ISBN: 1400079713
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: Dexter's Gamble
Summary: 3 Stars
When I bought this book, I was about halfway through the second season of the TV show, and what I will say about this book is that it's good enough to make you stop appreciating what the show does. After seeing such an intimate, realistic, nuanced account of the city, it's hard to go back to the cartoonish, curse-laden world of the series. That having been said, I wasn't a huge fan of this book.
I bought it because Pete Dexter came to read at my school and I have to admit that he's a better writer than I'd ever seen read, and that has a certain intoxicating effect; on the other hand, I couldn't get into what he wrote here. I actually think I probably would rate this lower if I hadn't seen Dexter in person.
What bothers me isn't the plot or the characterization, but the overarching sense of artsiness and flower that the book seems to put in places--some places, it seems earned and is genuinely beautiful; others, it doesn't, and isn't.
The overall effect of this a sort of unevenness. Dexter takes risks. This is commendable, but it doesn't always pay off, and this makes Deadwood a somewhat disappointing read.
Summary of Deadwood
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 and miscreants, he finds himself pursued by a vicious sheriff, a perverse whore man bent on revenge, and a besotted Calamity Jane. Fueled by liquor, sex, and violence, this is the real wild west, unlike anything portrayed in the dime novels that first told its story.General Books
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