Award Winning Books by
PETE DEXTER
| | 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 ...
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| | Los Angeles, 1953. Lionel Walk is a young black caddy at Brookline, the oldest, most exclusive country club in the city, where he is known by the nickname "Train." A troubled, keenly intelligent kid with no particular interest in his own prodigious talent for the game, he keeps his head down and his mouth shut as he navigates his way between the careless hostility of his "totes" and the explosive ...
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| | Two brothers in northern Florida become involved with a sexy young woman who asks them to investigate the case of the man she loves, a man whom she has never met but who has been convicted of killing the local sheriff. 75,000 first printing....
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| | 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.#Penguin....
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| Major Prize* Nominations |
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| Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* |
3 |
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| Pulitzer Prize Wins |
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| National Book Critics Circle Award Wins |
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| National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations |
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| National Book Award Wins |
1 |
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| National Book Award Nominations |
1 |
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| Man Booker Prize Wins |
0 |
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| Man Booker Prize Nominations |
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| PEN/Faulkner Award Wins |
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*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award
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117 reviews (2009) (480p)
30 reviews (1988) (306p)
