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Paris Trout is a 1988 American novel written by Pete Dexter. It was the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Pete Dexter
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 327
- Publisher
- Flamingo, Random House, HarperAudio
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9782757821947
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First sentence
“In the spring of that year an epidemic of rabies broke out in Ether County, Georgia.”
About Pete Dexter · 1943
1988 U.S. National Book Award winner for his novel Paris Trout.
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