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This title is now a major motion picture directed by Academy Award-nominated Lee Daniels and starring Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, David Oyelowo, and Macy Gray. The sun is rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call is found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck is 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 him the story of the decade. She's armed with explosive evidence, aiming to free - and meet - her convicted 'fiance'. 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 back seat to headline news. This title is suitable for readers of big American contemporary fiction such as Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird", Carson McCullers' "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" and Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood".
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An eerie and beautiful novel... Its secrets continue to reveal themselves long after the book has been finished * New York Times * Dexter is a writer who cuts to the bone. There is not a spare word in this searing tale... A bravura performance by one of America's most original and elegiac voices' * People * Hip, hard-boiled and filled with memorable eccentrics... The Paperboy burns with the phosphorescent atmosphere of betrayal * Time *
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Pete Dexter won the US National Book Award for Fiction for Paris Trout, two Penn West Awards for Best Novel of the Year (Paris Trout and The Paperboy), and the Los Angeles Times prize for Best Novel for Train. His most recent novel, Spooner (Atlantic Books), was published to critical acclaim in 2009.
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- PublisherAtlantic Books
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1782391770
- ISBN 13 9781782391777
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR011169641
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Book Description Condition: Fine. Ward James is a reclusive, obsessed young reporter, half of a famous invest igative team in Miami, the son of a newspaper family. His younger brother, Jack, recently expelled from the University of Florida 's swimming team, and then from the university itself, drives a delivery tr uck for their father's paper in northern Florida. The brothers are brought together when Ward returns home to investigate the case of a man awaiting execution for the revenge killing of the county's l egendary sheriff. Ward is accompanied by his opportunistic partner, Yardley Acheman, and Charlotte Bless, an inordinately sexual and determined woman who has fallen in love through the mail with the sheriff's murderer. What is uncovered in the months that follow, in the exploration -- and then exploitation -- of the murder of Sheriff Thurmond Call, goes beyond the cr ime itself to the heart of the characters, and to the heart of the business of journalism. Terrifying and graphically precise, The Paperboy is National Book Award winner Pete Dexter's most shocking -- and perhaps, at the same time, most accessible -- story to date. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. Seller Inventory # RWARE0000041708
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