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Nov 08, 2015voisjoe1_0 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Pete Dexter, author of Paris Trout (1988), is also a columnist for the Sacramento Bee. He has lived in the South, Midwest, and the Plain States, and he has been beaten by a mob, angry at his newspaper writing. He has seen the seedy side of life and he writes about it in his novels. The characters seem authentic Southern, both black and white, and run the gamut from the ignorant to the indifferent middle, to wife beaters, adulterers, murderers, tax evaders, racists, and cheats. There is not much room left for ordinary middle of the road Southerners. Dexter leaves that to the ordinary writers that pass on the mythology that white Southerners are all Jesus loving saints.