A respected white citizen of Cotton Point Georgia Paris Trout is a shopkeeper a money-lender and a murderer of blacks. And his friends family and foes do not realize the danger they face in a man who simply will not see his own guilt.
Pete Dexter is the author of the National Book Award-winning novel Paris Trout and five other novels: God's Pocket, Deadwood, Brotherly Love, The Paperboy, and Train. He has been a columnist for the P... more