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Author: Dexter, Pete
ISBN:978-0-434-01237-4
Publication Date:Jan 2004
Publisher:Penguin Random House
Imprint:Vintage
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $52.95
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Book Details
Pages:288
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / City Life
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
Fiction / Historical / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):16.1 x 24.1 x 2.5 cm
Book Weight:0.518 Kilograms
Author Biography
Dexter, Pete (Author)
Novelist, journalist, and poet Pete Dexter was born in Pontiac, Michigan, in 1943. As a student at the University of South Dakota, where he attended on and off for ten years, he wrote poetry and won a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. After graduating in 1970, he found work as a newspaper reporter. While working as a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, Dexter was nearly beaten to death by readers who disapproved of a piece he wrote about a drug-related murder. That experience helped propel him into fiction writing, and in 1984, he published God's Pocket.

Dexter won a National Book Award in 1988 for his novel Paris Trout, a book that exemplifies his characteristic blending of humor and violence. As a journalist, his work has also appeared in such periodicals as Esquire and Playboy. Paper Trails, published in 2007, is a compilation of columns he wrote for the Philadelphia Daily News and The Sacramento Bee from the 1970s to the 1990s. He also wrote the novel Spooner in 2009.

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