Paris Trout

Dexter, Pete - SIGNED FIRST EDITION

ISBN 10: 0002234246 / ISBN 13: 9780002234245

Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1988

About this Item

A wonderful book, made into a wonderful film. A rare event. This great writer has signed this British first hardback, and without any dedication. It has been read but not abused. It is not price clipped and the jacket is protected. Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # ABE-18187459794

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Paris Trout
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0002234246
• ISBN 13: 9780002234245
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

Paris Trout

From the Back Cover

'Paris Trout' is a white storekeeper and moneylender in the sleepy little town of Cotton Point, Georgia. He is also an implacable bigot. A long time ago he studied law, but he is no respecter of it. One hot summer’s day he invokes his own law, with devastating results.

Some of the townspeople think Paris Trout a hero for what he did: others that the law should make him pay.

‘A grim and fascinating novel filled with wonderfully comic touches, by a writer whose brilliant understanding of the Deep South has allowed him to capture much of its essence – its bitter class distinctions, its violence, its strangeness... A fine and engrossing work’
WILLIAM STYRON

‘Reaches out and grabs the reader by the throat’
KATE SAUNDERS, 'Sunday Times'

‘Written with a quiet, almost forensic calm, full of foreboding detail, subtly registered, and with few of the baroque set-pieces normally associated with ‘Southern’ literature’
BRIAN MORTON, 'The Times'

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