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Country United States Pages 306 | 3.9/5 Goodreads Language English Originally published 1988 Page count 306 Genre Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paris Trout is a 1988 American novel written by Pete Dexter and 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, Paris Trout, a bigoted store owner, kills a young black man's younger sister and wounds his mother when a car deal between them goes wrong.
References
Paris Trout (novel) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA