In the spring of that year an epidemic of rabies broke out in Ether County, Georgia.
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(1988)
Paris Trout
a novel
Random House trade paperback edition
by Pete Dexter
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Pete Dexter’s National Book Award–winning tour de force tells the mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that shatters lives and exposes the hypocrisies of a small Southern town.
The time and place: Cotton Point, Georgia, just after World War II. The event: the murder of a fourteen-year-old black girl by a respected white citizen named Paris Trout, who feels he’s done absolutely nothing wrong. As a trial looms, the crime eats away at the social fabric of Cotton Point, through its facade of manners and civility. Trout’s indifference haunts his defense lawyer; his festering paranoia warps his timid, quiet wife; and Trout himself moves closer to madness as he becomes obsessed with his cause—and his vendettas.
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Crime Mysteries, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, fiction, thrillers, National Book Award Winner, award:national_book_award=1988, award:national_book_award=fiction, Murderers, Girls, City and town life, Crimes against, Southern States, Race relations, Trials (Murder), Fiction, generalPeople
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Paris Trout: a novel
2014, Random House Trade Paperbacks
Paperback
in English
- Random House trade paperback edition
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Paris trout
1991?, Flamingo
Paperback
in English
- Movie Tie-In Edition (3)
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Paris trout
1991, Penguin Books
Paperback
in English
- Movie Tie-In Edition (1)
0140156852 9780140156850
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Paris Trout
1989, Fontana/Collins
paperback
in English
- Continental edition
000617776X 9780006177760
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Paris Trout is a 1988 American novel written by Pete Dexter. It was the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.
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