The Paperboy
by Pete Dexter
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Author: Pete DexterEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-01-01
ISBN: 0385315724
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Delta
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- ISBN13: 9780385315722
- Condition: New
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Book Review: Human nature & the perils of journalism
Summary: 5 Stars
Don't be taken in by the jacket copy. This is not a thriller. The murder mystery is secondary to a solemn meditation on Southern culture, human nature, families, and the dangers of believing what you read -- and write -- in the newspapers. <new ¶>
Jack, the Failed Younger Son of a small-town newspaper publisher, gets kicked out of college and finds himself tagging along as his brother, a socially inept but obsessively dedicated Miami reporter, and his manipulative partner investigate a murder conviction in the brothers' home town. Their work is complicated by the appearance of a blue-collar femme fatale who specializes in writing love letters to killers on death row. She spurs the reporters and Jack ever deeper into the Florida swamps and the quicksand of their own psyches. <new ¶>
This is a complicated book written in a beautifully simple style. The narrator's straightforward voice never falters as his tale ranges from Southern Gothic horror to ironically accurate observations of human nature to painful personal realizations.
Summary of The Paperboy
The sun was rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call was found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck was tried, sentenced, and set to fry.Then Ward James, hotshot investigative reporter for the Miami Times, returns to his rural hometown with a death row femme fatale who promises him the story of the decade. She's armed with explosive evidence, aiming to free--and meet--her convicted "fiancÚ."
With Ward's disillusioned younger brother Jack as their driver, they barrel down Florida's back roads and seamy places in search of The Story, racing flat out into a shocking head-on collision between character and fate as truth takes a back seat to headline news...
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