Pete Dexter

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.

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BROTHERLY LOVE
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BROTHERLY LOVE
  • By: Pete Dexter
  • Narrator: Chris Sarandon
  • Length: 2 hours 38 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: March 06, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (550 ratings)
(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... Read more
God’s Pocket
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God’s Pocket
  • By: Pete Dexter
  • Narrator: George Newbern
  • Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2014
  • Language: English
  • (530 ratings)
(530 ratings)
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.
PARIS TROUT
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PARIS TROUT
  • By: Pete Dexter
  • Narrator: Charles S. Dutton
  • Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: March 06, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (5800 ratings)
(5800 ratings)
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.
Spooner
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Spooner
  • By: Pete Dexter
  • Narrator: Pete Dexter
  • Length: 14 hours 47 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: September 24, 2009
  • Language: English
  • (2022 ratings)
(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... Read more
The Paperboy
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The Paperboy
  • By: Pete Dexter
  • Narrator: Sean Runnette
  • Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (2774 ratings)
(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,... Read more
Train
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Train
  • By: Pete Dexter
  • Narrator: Pete Dexter
  • Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: March 11, 2008
  • Language: English
  • (1016 ratings)
(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,... Read more

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