Deadwood - Softcover

Dexter, Pete

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140127291 ISBN 13: 9780140127294

Publisher: Penguin/ Putnam, 1989

Synopsis

The sun was rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call wasfound 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 himthe story of the decade. She's armed with explosive evidence, aiming tofree--and meet--her convicted "fiancé ."

With Ward's disillusioned younger brother Jack as their driver, theybarrel 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 astruth takes a back seat to headline news...

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Review:

"If you want to call Deadwood a Western, you might as well call The House of Mirth chick lit. Dexter looked at the dark, twisted, ridiculous doings of Bill Hickok and company, said to himself, 'I recognize that!' and gave us a world-class entertainment." --Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections"Unpredictable, hyperbolic and, page after page, uproarious; a joshing book written in high spirits and a raw appreciation of the past." --"The New York Times Book Review""Splendid. . . . Rumor put straight. . . . A carefully researched knitting of events into their most dazzling fabric." --"The Philadelphia Inquirer""Deadwood may well be the best western ever written." --"The Washington Post Book World""What deepens and darkens [Dexter's] writing, so that art is the precise word to describe it, is a powerful understanding that character rules, that we live with our weaknesses and die of our strengths." --"Time""Dexter is a master of colloquial poetry, of moods revealed through gestures and settings." -"-Playboy" "One of the greatest American writers... a storyteller who cuts straight to the nerve." --Scott L. Turow"Dexter's strongest suit is his exquisite understanding of the finely meshed engines of greed, appetite, and interest." --"The New York Times Book Review""Great, eccentric characters....Dexter's writing is a living thing." --"USA Today"

If you want to call Deadwood a Western, you might as well call The House of Mirth chick lit.Dexter looked at the dark, twisted, ridiculous doings of Bill Hickok and company, said to himself, I recognize that! and gave us a world-class entertainment. Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections Unpredictable, hyperbolic and, page after page, uproarious; a joshing book written in high spirits and a raw appreciation of the past. --"The New York Times Book Review" Splendid. . . . Rumor put straight. . . . A carefully researched knitting of events into their most dazzling fabric. --"The Philadelphia Inquirer" Deadwood may well be the best western ever written. "The Washington Post Book World""What deepens and darkens [Dexter's] writing, so that art is the precise word to describe it, is a powerful understanding that character rules, that we live with our weaknesses and die of our strengths." --"Time""Dexter is a master of colloquial poetry, of moods revealed through gestures and settings." -"-Playboy" "One of the greatest American writers... a storyteller who cuts straight to the nerve." --Scott L. Turow"Dexter's strongest suit is his exquisite understanding of the finely meshed engines of greed, appetite, and interest." --"The New York Times Book Review""Great, eccentric characters....Dexter's writing is a living thing." --"USA Today""

If you want to call Deadwood a Western, you might as well call The House of Mirth chick lit.Dexter looked at the dark, twisted, ridiculous doings of Bill Hickok and company, said to himself, I recognize that! and gave us a world-class entertainment. Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections Unpredictable, hyperbolic and, page after page, uproarious; a joshing book written in high spirits and a raw appreciation of the past. --The New York Times Book Review Splendid. . . . Rumor put straight. . . . A carefully researched knitting of events into their most dazzling fabric. --The Philadelphia Inquirer Deadwood may well be the best western ever written. The Washington Post Book World"What deepens and darkens [Dexter's] writing, so that art is the precise word to describe it, is a powerful understanding that character rules, that we live with our weaknesses and die of our strengths." --Time"Dexter is a master of colloquial poetry, of moods revealed through gestures and settings." --Playboy "One of the greatest American writers... a storyteller who cuts straight to the nerve." --Scott L. Turow"Dexter's strongest suit is his exquisite understanding of the finely meshed engines of greed, appetite, and interest." --The New York Times Book Review"Great, eccentric characters....Dexter's writing is a living thing." --USA Today"

About the Author:

Pete Dexter is the author of the National Book Award winner Paris Trout and of God's Pocket, Deadwood, Brotherly Love, The Paperboy and Train. He was born in Michigan and raised in Georgia, Illinois, and eastern South Dakota. He lives on Puget Sound, Washington.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin/ Putnam
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0140127291
• ISBN 13: 9780140127294
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384