Paris Trout
New York: Random House, (1988).
Price: $25.00
Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Author's third novel. Winner of the National Book Award. Basis for a television movie directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal and starring Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey, and Ed Harris.
Item #446234
ISBN: 0394563700
Pete Dexter
birth name: Peter Whittemore Dexter
born: 07/22/1943
Biography
Michigan-born journalist and novelist known for his National Book Award-winning Paris Trout and other works. He began fiction writing after a 1981 incident in which he was beaten and left partially disabled by a drunken mob of 30 Philadelphians upset by a recent column for a local newspaper.more