Paris Trout
Paris Trout won the National Book Award. 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.
- Publisher
- Random House
- ISBN-13
- 9780812987393
- Topics
Awards
- National Book Award for FictionWonMajor(1988)
- National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1988)
Other awarded books from Pete Dexter
- Train (2005)1 win · 12 score
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