Pete Dexter: 11 books

In the 1970s and 1980s, before he earned national acclaim for his award-winning novels, Pete Dexter was a newspaper columnist. Every week, in a few hundred words, Dexter cut directly to the heart of the American character at a time of national turmoil and crucial change. With haunting urgency, his...

Pete Dexter’s National Book Award–winning tour de force tells the mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that shatters lives and exposes the hypocrisies of a small Southern town. The time and place: Cotton Point, Georgia, just after World War II. The event: the murder of a fourteen-year-old...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE In this striking debut from the author of the National Book Award winner Paris Trout, Pete Dexter chronicles a murder and its consequences in the fictional blue-collar Philadelphia neighborhood of God’s Pocket. Leon Hubbard makes other men nervous, talking...

Train is an 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...

In the City of Brotherly Love, a car skids off the ice and ignites a chain of events that changes everything for eight-year-old Peter Flood. Peter’s father is a powerful man, a union boss with mob connections, but all the power in the world is useless to a grieving son. Raised by his uncle, Peter...

Dakota-Territorium, 1876. Der legendäre Revolverheld Wild Bill Hickok und sein Freund Charley Utter erreichen mit einem Treck, der aus Cheyenne kommt, die Goldgräberstadt Deadwood. Obgleich von Alter und Krankheit gezeichnet, ist Wild Bill immer noch in der Lage, jeden Mann in einem fairen Duell...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An eerie and beautiful novel . . . Its secrets continue to reveal themselves long after the book has been finished.”—The New York Times Book Review The sun is rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call is found on the highway, gutted...

Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant...

DEADWOOD, DAKOTA TERRITORIES, 1876: Legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickcock and his friend Charlie Utter have come to the Black Hills town of Deadwood fresh from Cheyenne, fleeing an ungrateful populace. Bill, aging and sick but still able to best any man in a fair gunfight, just wants to be left alone...

Moat County, Florida, 1965. Kurz nach Sonnenaufgang wird Sheriff Thurmond Call auf dem Highway gefunden, ausgeweidet wie ein Alligator, dem man ans Leder will. Die Einwohner des Countys verlangen Gerechtigkeit, und bald schon ist ein Schuldiger gefunden: Hillary Van Wetter, der unberechenbare, gewalttätige...

Philadelphia, 1961. Die Fronten sind klar abgesteckt. Die Italiener haben auf der Straße das Sagen, die Iren kontrollieren die Gewerkschaften. Doch dieses prekäre Gleichgewicht gerät ins Wanken, als ein tragischer Unfall die Familie von Peter Flood zerstört. Der Junge wächst fortan bei seinem...