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Paris Trout (Contemporary American Fiction)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780140122060
ISBN: 0140122060
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: August 01, 1989
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Editorial Review:
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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Rating:  - PARIS TROUT
When this book came out I was in high school and I thought, that's all we need, yet another book about racism and a small southern town..I mean how many books can be written on this subject? I recently sat down and read this book, it's quite a page turner, but still it's a one trick pony..on part Harper Lee, two parts John Grisham. Granted, Paris Trout, is a racist monster, conjured up from Redneck Hell, but he is a total caracture, it's like the author read To Kill a Mockingbird and said, I'm ... Read More
Rating:  - Masterful and Swift
Paris Trout is a novel of great speed and explosive power, and it begins this way and never really lets up. It is Dexter's great achievement here: he creates and atmosphere of suspension and tension that can be, at times, nearly unbearable. He has also crafted a character, Paris Trout, so sinister in his dimensions that the reader can not help but feel sorry for him despite his innumerable acts of evil. Trout is both cipher for events and the catalyst for the events themselves in this novel which ... Read More
Rating: - An Almost Good Book
The title character of this novel, Paris Trout, is an insane loan shark who keeps all the numbers in his head and his money hidden. He murders a fourteen year-old black girl. The structure of the book is such that the perspective shifts, we see the murder and its aftermath from the POV of Paris Trout, his lawyer, his wife, and several other characters. The social and historical world of the small Southern town in the late 1960s (just a guess, I don't know that the date is ever actually given) is credibly ... Read More
Rating:  - Crooked Government and a Psycho
I was assigned to read this book in a Southern Fiction class and for the life of me, I don't understand what I was supposed to get out of it that was beneficial. The book is basically about a white guy who has lent money to a brotha for a car. When the car gets into an accident, the brotha takes the car back to the white guy thinking he's going to repair the car because of the insurance he got. Instead of the car being fixed, this situation turns into a shoot-out, in which conniving lawyers, crooked judges, ... Read More
Rating: - "I'm not ashamed. I did what was right."
The National Book Award Winner from 1988, _Paris Trout_, based on a real murder and subsequent trial in Milledgeville, Georgia, is a tale of racism, abuse, bribery, injustice, and most of all, arrogance. Paris Trout, a white shopkeeper in Cotton Point, Georgia, makes his own rules, paying little attention to other laws as he sells used cars (on which the rust is hidden under new paint), terrorizes the black community into repaying loans with high interest, and uses trickery to avoid claims on the insurance policies ... Read More
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