1988 novel by Pete Dexter
Paris Trout is a 1988 American novel written by Pete Dexter. It was the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.
The novel was adapted into a film of the same name.
Plot.
In a small Georgia town in the 1950s, a bigoted store owner named Paris Trout kills a black man's younger sister and wounds his mother when a car deal between them goes wrong.
Critical reception.
The "Los Angeles Times" called the novel "a masterpiece, complex and breath-taking."
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