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Pete Dexter

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14+ verk 4,375 medlemmar 99 recensioner 15 favoritmärkta

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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 visa mer 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. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Verk av Pete Dexter

Paris Trout : [roman] (1988) 1,245 exemplar
The Paperboy (1995) 757 exemplar
Deadwood (1968) 709 exemplar
Spooner (2009) — Författare — 536 exemplar
Train (2003) 508 exemplar
Broderlig kärlek : [roman] (1991) 289 exemplar
God's Pocket (1983) 197 exemplar
Rush [1991 film] (1991) — Screenplay — 10 exemplar
Dexter Pete 1 exemplar
Avisdrengen (2001) 1 exemplar

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The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 204 exemplar
Michael [1996 movie] (1996) — Screenwriter — 82 exemplar
The New Great American Writers' Cookbook (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 21 exemplar
Playboy Magazine ~ August 1986 (Lillian Müller) (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar

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Though the story playing out in the series is often a product of creator David Milch's 'imaginative reality', that in no way lessens its impact as a narrative of the Dakotas and their overly rich history of villainy, debauchery and profanity. Deadwood itself grew from a small mining camp to ten thousand inhabitants in a dizzying matter of three months in 1873. Word of a substantial ore find literally led to the phrase 'there's gold in them thar hills', creating an endless stream of immigrants to the Badlands. The territory itself was relegated to the Sioux Indians, and the U.S. Government was supposed to keep settlers out. But as everyone knows, money talks.… (mer)
 
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jgcorrea | 23 andra recensioner | Mar 15, 2024 |
Very entertaining - close to 5 stars. The dialogue is great, at times reminiscent of Beckett. The author was, of course, restricted by the actual events in Deadwood, so I wished that some relationships could persist, but I guess that's the point. As Agnes Lake says, Things don't care how they happen, that's left for us, to care.
 
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markm2315 | 23 andra recensioner | Aug 18, 2023 |
Really great.
 
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k6gst | 23 andra recensioner | Jul 28, 2023 |
I waffled on whether to give this four or five stars. The story and characters carry you along almost effortlessly, and the tension, or maybe 'drive' is a better word, of the writing is irresistible. What made me dock one star was the structure, I think. I think the structure belongs to a longer book. Not that this doesn't feel complete. It's very satisfying.

Roy Blount, Jr. is said to have provided the following blurb for the book: 'I put it down once to wipe off the sweat.' High praise indeed. That's what made me seek it out, at least. And if I didn't read so slowly, and if I didn't have a small child in the house, I, too, would have swallowed this book whole.

I'll definitely read more of Pete Dexter. I already have Spooner sitting on the shelf.
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bookwrapt | 22 andra recensioner | Mar 31, 2023 |

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Verk
14
Även av
4
Medlemmar
4,375
Popularitet
#5,733
Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
99
ISBN
177
Språk
11
Favoritmärkt
15

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