Pete Dexter
Pete Dexter is the author of the National Book Award-winning novel Paris Trout, among others. He has been a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Sacramento Bee and has contributed to many magazines, including Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and Playboy. His screenplays include Rush and Mulholland Falls. Born in Michigan, he was raised in Georgia, Illinois, and eastern South Dakota. He now lives on an island off the coast of Washington.
All Books By Pete Dexter
BROTHERLY LOVE
- By: Pete Dexter
- Narrator: Chris Sarandon
- Length: 2 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 06, 2007
- Language: English
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3.83(550 ratings)
In Philadelphia city, 1961, a division of power exists between the Italian mobs and the predominantly Irish labour leaders. When the youngest daughter of union man Charley Flood is accidentally killed by one of the Mafia’s cops it is the beginning of a suicidal chain of retaliation.
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- By: Pete Dexter
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.8(530 ratings)
PARIS TROUT
- By: Pete Dexter
- Narrator: Charles S. Dutton
- Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 06, 2007
- Language: English
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3.88(5800 ratings)
Spooner
- By: Pete Dexter
- Narrator: Pete Dexter
- Length: 14 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 24, 2009
- Language: English
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3.68(2022 ratings)
National Book Award-winning author Pete Dexter excels at writing eccentric characters and comical, yet touching, prose. In Spooner, Dexter weaves the tale of Warren Spooner, a troubled boy whose father dies shortly after he’s born. When his mother marries Calmer Ottosson, a decorated Navy officer fallen from grace, Warren is saved by Calmer’s inexhaustible patience. As Warren grows up, the two men forge a bond that will carry them both through the hard times ahead.
... Read moreThe Paperboy
- By: Pete Dexter
- Narrator: Sean Runnette
- Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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3.6(2774 ratings)
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, a 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 and aims to free–and meet–her convicted “fianc+(r).”
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 backseat to headline news.
... Read moreTrain
- By: Pete Dexter
- Narrator: Pete Dexter
- Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 11, 2008
- Language: English
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3.76(1016 ratings)
Train is a 18-year-old black caddy at an exclusive L.A. country club. He is a golf prodigy, but the year is 1953 and there is no such thing as a black golf prodigy. Nevertheless, Train draws the interest of Miller Packard, a gambler whose smiling, distracted air earned him the nickname “the Mile Away Man.” Packard’s easy manner hides a proclivity for violence, and he remains an enigma to Train even months later when they are winning high stakes matches against hustlers throughout the country. Packard is also drawn to Norah Still, a beautiful woman scared in a hideous crime, a woman who finds Packard’s tendency toward violence both alluring and frightening. In the ensuing triangular relationship kindness is never far from cruelty.
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