Pete Dexter

Los Angeles 1953. Il campo da golf e un campo di guerra per Train. Train e giovanissimo. È nero, e povero, e un caddy. Guarda i bianchi giocare e si allena, di nascosto. Per giocare meglio di tutti. Poi un giorno sul campo da golf incontra Packard. Misterioso, potente. Come un dio segreto. E la sua vita cambia per sempre. Qual e il segreto di Packard, che si arroga il diritto di salvare e di punire? E quale destino vuole che Norah, bella e ricca donna bianca liberal, subisca la violenza piu selvaggia e si leghi per sempre a Packard? Sotto gli occhi di Train, si compone un mistero che e una storia di amore e di orrore improvviso, di salvezza e di perdizione.

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 to himself or anyone who will listen about the things he's cut with his straight razor. So when he crosses the wrong guy on a South Philly construction site and winds up with his head caved in, everyone is content to bury the bad news with the body. Everyone, that is, except Leon's mother--and a local newspaper columnist hoping the story will resurrect his career. Only a mother could love a man like Leon. But only an outsider could expect to change anything in God's Pocket. Praise for "God's Pocket" " " "Riveting . . . a first-class first novel . . . highlighted by superior writing, dialogue that rings true, and a highly believable background."--Associated Press ""God's Pocket "sings, snarls, mugs, wisecracks, buys you a drink, steals your wallet, and takes you home to meet the folks."--Richard Price "My own favorite among Mr. Dexter's work remains "God's Pocket, " which I continue to admire for its rich, well-nigh Dickensian mixture of verisimilitude, real-life absurdity, horror and romance."--Robert Stone, "The New York Times Book Review" " " "Rollicking . . . a tough Philadelphia neighborhood comes to life in these pages."--"Playboy"

Oddball, accident-prone Warren Spooner doesnt so much get along with life as crash into it head-on. Through the awkward scrapes of his childhood, to a violent and troubled adulthood, the young man is nothing if not resilient, standing up to adversity in his own dark (often extremely dark) ways. Hilarious and heartbreaking, US National Book Award-winner Pete Dexters autobiographical magnum opus is nothing short of a tragicomic tour de force.

Soberbio y estremecedor. Una historia de asesinatos y venganzas, de retorcidos lazos familiares, oscuras fascinaciones y culpa en el cerrado y endogámico universo de las mafias de Filadelfia.

« Ici, rien n''est normal, même le temps… Le jour de notre arrivée, on a vu deux hommes portant une tête humaine, en pleine rue… Un Mexicain avec celle d''un Indien, et une crapule qui louchait et qu

Lionel Walk, better known as Train, is a young black caddy at an elite Los Angeles golf course, where he comes to know a police detective he calls 'The Mile-Away Man'. Keeping his head down, he navigates his way between the careless brutality of the other caddies. Norah Still is unwillingly at the center of the criminal investigation, as the only survivor of an attempted boat hijacking gone violently wrong. Sergeant Miller Packard - Train's 'Mile-Away Man' - is in charge of the case and, as he quietly manages the crime scene, he finds himself drawn to the beautiful widow. Miller's interest in Norah and Train soon moves beyond his professional obligations. He tries to shield Norah from the events on the boat, fighting her need to hold on to the past. He becomes a kind of manager as Train competes as a golfer on a lucrative underground gambling circuit. Miller's oddly personal concern binds the three of them together in an uneasy triangle. Pete Dexter's remarkable new novel brings to life the most violent and tender impulses of his characters as they struggle to come to terms with the difference between a gift and a passion, between their abilities and their desires.

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 like an alligator. A local redneck is tried, sentenced, and set to fry. Then Ward James, hotshot investigative reporter for the Miami Times, returns to his rural hometown with a death row femme fatale who promises him the story of the decade. Shes armed with explosive evidence, aiming to freeand meether convicted fiance. With Wards disillusioned younger brother Jack as their driver, they barrel down Floridas back roads and seamy places in search of The Story, racing flat out into a shocking head-on collision between character and fate as truth takes a back seat to headline news. Now a major motion picture directed by Lee Daniels starring Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, David Oyelowo, and Macy Gray, with John Cusack and Nicole KidmanPraise for The PaperboyDexter is a writer who cuts to the bone. There is not a spare word in this searing tale. . . . A bravura performance by one of Americas most original and elegiac voices.People Hip, hard-boiled and filled with memorable eccentrics . . . The Paperboy burns with the phosphorescent atmosphere of betrayal.Time A wise and fascinating tale well told.Entertainment Weekly

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 to drink and play cards. But in this town of played-out miners, bounty hunters, upstairs girls, Chinese immigrants, and various other entrepeneurs and miscreants, he finds himself pursued by a vicious sheriff, a perverse whore man bent on revenge, and a besotted Calamity Jane. Fueled by liquor, sex, and violence, this is the real wild west, unlike anything portrayed in the dime novels that first told its story.

Hillary Van Wetter foi preso pelo homicídio de um xerife sem escrúpulos e está, agora, aguardando no corredor da morte. Enquanto espera pela sentença final, Van Wetter recebe cartas da atraente Charlotte Bless, que esta determinada a liberta-lo para que eles possam se casar.Bless tentara provar a inocencia de Wetter conquistando o apoio de dois reporteres investigativos de um jornal de Miami: o ambicioso Yardley Acheman e o ingenuo e obsessivo Ward James.As provas contra Wetter so inconsistentes e os escritores esto confiantes de que, se conseguirem expor Wetter como vitima de uma justiça caipira e racista, sua historia sera aclamada no mundo jornalistico. No entanto, historias mal contadas e fatos falsificados levaro Jack James, o irmo mais novo de Ward, a fazer uma investigaço por conta propria. Uma investigaço que dara conta de um mundo que se sustenta sobre mentiras e segredos torpes.Paperboy e um romance gotico sobre a vida aparentemente sossegada das cidades do interior. Um thriller tenso ate a ultima linha, que fala de corrupço e violencia, mas que, ao mesmo tempo, promove uma liço de etica."Um romance estranho belo, que nos obriga a permanecer em suas misteriosas vielas emocionais." - The New York Times

Philadelphie. Quartier de God’s Pocket. Leon Hubbard meurt sur un chantier. Un peu trop vantard, la lame de rasoir à portée de main, il a provoqué une fois de trop un de ses collègues. Version offici

Philadelphie. Quartier de God’s Pocket. Leon Hubbard meurt sur un chantier. Un peu trop vantard, la lame de rasoir à portée de main, il a provoqué une fois de trop un de ses collègues. Version offici

«Un escritor excelente. Un libro que se inscribe en el nivel más alto de la gran literatura del Sur» (Newsweek). Paris Trout es un rico comerciante y prestamista en una pequeña ciudad del Sur de los

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 Gods Pocket. Leon Hubbard makes other men nervous, talking to himself or anyone who will listen about the things hes cut with his straight razor. So when he crosses the wrong guy on a South Philly construction site and winds up with his head caved in, everyone is content to bury the bad news with the body. Everyone, that is, except Leons motherand a local newspaper columnist hoping the story will resurrect his career. Only a mother could love a man like Leon. But only an outsider could expect to change anything in Gods Pocket. Praise for Gods Pocket Riveting . . . a first-class first novel . . . highlighted by superior writing, dialogue that rings true, and a highly believable background.Associated Press Gods Pocket sings, snarls, mugs, wisecracks, buys you a drink, steals your wallet, and takes you home to meet the folks.Richard Price My own favorite among Mr. Dexters work remains Gods Pocket, which I continue to admire for its rich, well-nigh Dickensian mixture of verisimilitude, real-life absurdity, horror and romance.Robert Stone, The New York Times Book Review Rollicking . . . a tough Philadelphia neighborhood comes to life in these pages.Playboy

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. Peters 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 tries to distance himself from the casual brutality of the family business, gravitating instead toward a small South Philly gym. Peters cousin Michaelhis brothermoves in another direction: into small-time intimidation and the trappings of a union prince. Neither, however, can outrun the logic of violence as theyre dragged into a world of bad blood and a chilling cycle of betrayal and retribution. Praise for Brotherly Love A first-rate novel and a masterly evocation of that undercivilized and unfree America . . . The grace and confidence of [Pete Dexters] prose conveys absolute authenticity.The New York Times Book Review Enviably artful workcarefully wrought, canny in its insights, sly in its presentation, sneaky in its revelations.Chicago Tribune Extraordinarily poignant . . . Brotherly Love is all bulletproof prose and flinty-eyed bravissimo. . . . But the quieter, sadder aspects of the novel are its strongest points.The Boston Globe Tautly and often exquisitely written.Los Angeles Times