Paris Trout (Contemporary American Fiction)

Paris Trout (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Pete Dexter

Paris Trout (Contemporary American Fiction)
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Author: Pete Dexter
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1989-08-01
ISBN: 0140122060
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Summary of Paris Trout (Contemporary American Fiction)

A respected white citizen of Cotton Point, Georgia, Paris Trout is a shopkeeper, a money-lender, and a murderer of blacks. And his friends, family and foes do not realize the danger they face in a man who simply will not see his own guilt.#Penguin.
In this novel of social drama, a casual murder in the small Georgia town of Cotton Point just after World War II and the resulting court case cleave open the ugly divisions of race and class. The man accused of shooting a black girl, a storekeeper named Paris Trout, has no great feeling of guilt, nor fear that the system will fail to work his way. Trout becomes an embarrassment to the polite white society that prefers to hold itself high above such primitive prejudice. But the trial does not allow any hiding from the stark reality of social and racial tensions. Dexter, a former newspaper columnist, is also the author of Deadwood and God's Pocket. Paris Trout won the 1988 National Book Award.

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