Paris Trout
Subtitle: a novel
By: Pete Dexter
Edition: Random House trade paperback edition
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780812987386
Copyright date: 1988
Subjects: Race relations; Fiction
Description: 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 black girl by a respected white citizen named Paris Trout, who feels he’s done absolutely nothing wrong. As a trial looms, the crime eats away at the social fabric of Cotton Point, through its facade of manners and civility. Trout’s indifference haunts his defense lawyer; his festering paranoia warps his timid, quiet wife; and Trout himself moves closer to madness as he becomes obsessed with his cause—and his vendettas.