Pete Dexter has 7 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 7 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Paris Trout.
Paris Trout
Summary
In this novel of social drama, a casual murder in the small Georgia town of Cotton Point just after World War II, and the resulting court case, cleave open the ugly divisions of race and class. The man accused of shooting a black girl, a storekeeper named Paris Trout, has no great feeling of guilt, nor any fear that the system will fail to work his way. Trout becomes an embarrassment to the polite white society that prefers to hold itself high above such primitive prejudice. But the trial does not allow any avoidance of the stark reality of social and racial tensions.
©1988 Pete Dexter (P)1991 HarperCollins Publishers
Spooner
Summary
Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant young naval officer, Calmer Ottosson, recently court-martialed out of service. This is the story of the lifelong tie between the two men, poles apart, of Spooner's troubled childhood, troubled adolescence, violent and troubled adulthood, and Calmer Ottosson's inexhaustible patience, undertaking a life-long struggle to salvage his step-son, a man he will never understand.
©2009 Pete Dexter (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC
Train
Summary
Winner of the National Book Award, Pete Dexter has been declared "one of America's most original and elegiac voices" by People magazine. Train is a gripping piece of crime noir destined to become an American classic. Lionel Walk, better known as Train, is a young black caddy at an elite Los Angeles golf course. There, he navigates between careless hostility of patrons and the volatile brutality of the other caddies. One day, he finds an unexpected protector: police sergeant Miller Packer, who Train dubs "the Mile-Away Man" for his distant gaze. Packer is investigating a botched and bloody boat hijacking that left a lone survivor: achingly beautiful Norah Still. When the lives of these three people intersect, both violence and tenderness swiftly rise to the surface. Train exhibits the sureness of style and keen, compassionate eye that made Dexter's previous novels, including The Paperboy, best sellers. Dion Graham's powerful narration draws listeners deep into the currents of danger, dreams, and desire.
©2003 Pete Dexter (P)2003 Recorded Books, LLC
God's Pocket
Summary
Young Leon Hubbard was arrogant and near psychotic. So when he was killed on a South Philadelphia construction site, everyone who knew him wanted to bury the bad news with the body. All, that is, except two - Leon's mother and the local columnist for the common man. Now back in print, God's Pocket is the powerful first novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Paris Trout.
©1995 Pete Dexter (P)2014 Simon & Schuster Audio
Deadwood
Summary
Dakota-Territorium, 1876. Der legendäre Revolverheld Wild Bill und sein Freund Charlie Utter erreichen die Goldgräberstadt Deadwood. Alter und Krankheit sind nicht spurlos an Wild Bill vorbeigegangen und obwohl er noch immer jeden Mann im Duell zur Strecke bringen kann, sehnt er sich nach ruhigen Tagen im Saloon. Doch Deadwood ist kein Ort, der Ruhe bietet, und bald trachtet mehr als ein Mann nach Wild Bills Leben. Basierend auf historischen Quellen hat Pete Dexter einen furiosen Roman geschrieben über den Wilden Westen, wie er wirklich war: schmutzig, korrupt, voller Gier und Gewalt.
©2011 Liebeskind (P)2012 Der Audio Verlag
Brotherly Love
Summary
Orphaned when his father, a powerful South Philadelphia mob boss, is killed in a car crash, Peter Flood tries to avoid the family business. His cousin Michael, however, seeks a career in crime. This is an absorbing narrative of fratricidal betrayal by the National Book Award-winning author of Paris Trout.
©1991 Pete Dexter (P)1991 HarperCollins Publishers
The Paperboy
Summary
The sun was rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call was found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck was tried, sentenced, and set to fry. Then Ward James, a hotshot investigative reporter for the Miami Times, returns to his rural hometown with a death row femme fatale who promises him the story of the decade. She’s armed with explosive evidence and aims to free - and meet - her convicted “fiancé.” With Ward’s disillusioned younger brother Jack as their driver, they barrel down Florida’s back roads and seamy places in search of the story, racing flat out into a shocking head-on collision between character and fate as truth takes a backseat to headline news. Pete Dexter is the author of the National Book Award–winning novel Paris Trout, among others. He has been a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Sacramento Bee and has contributed to many magazines, including Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and Playboy. His screenplays include Rush and Mulholland Falls.
©1995 Pete Dexter (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.