Deadwood

Deadwood
by Pete Dexter

Deadwood
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Author: Pete Dexter
Edition: 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: A Western Pulp Fiction
Summary: 5 Stars

I never would have believed I'd read , much less enjoy , a western novel . The over the top violence is often comical and , Dexter's use of dialog is amazing . The broken english and colloquialisms ,of even the dumbest characters are hilarious , witty , and insightful . Often both . There were caracters I came to care about and miss upon their demise . " Laugh out loud" is a cliche tossed around in too many reviews . Personally I've only found only a few writers that funny and I read a lot . ( John Kennedy O'Toole , Barry Hannah , Padgett Powell , Mark Leyner , and now Peter Dexter ) . I laughed out loud often and , at times , even cried . Its that good . Can't wait to read more of Dexter's work .

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.

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