Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not About Marriage - Brossura

Dexter, Pete

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ISBN 10: 0061189367 ISBN 13: 9780061189364

Casa editrice: Ecco Pr, 2013

Riassunto

Collects eighty-two definitive nonfiction writings by the author of the National Book Award-winning Paris Trout, in a volume that features works that chronicle the writer's life and times. Reprint.

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Recensione:

“[A] literary feat―when Dexter gets going he crawls under the skin and stays there.” (New York Times Book Review)

[Dexter’s pieces] read like finely honed short stories....Their spare, haunting scenes echo Hemingway, their insights Faulkner. (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

PAPER TRAILS is what great newspaper writing is all about. (Washington Post Book World)

“Pete Dexter is a master story teller in all forms... This is the work of a great American writer.” (Michael Connelly)

“A jewel box of muscular writing...” (Denver Post)

Superb...Remarkable...The simple clarity of [Dexter’s] prose is like an Edward Hopper painting. (New York Sun)

With authority and a strange grace, Dexter has crafted a powerful true portrait of the underbelly of the American Dream. (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

“Lovers of fine writing ought to give a serious consideration to Pete Dexter’s new book.” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

“Paper Trails is a master class in tight, effective writing.” (St. Petersburg Times)

“The author’s true eye for detail makes for easy reading.” (Kirkus Reviews)

L'autore:

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 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. Dexter was born in Michigan and raised in Georgia, Illinois, and eastern South Dakota. He lives on an island off the coast of Washington.

Rob Fleder was executive editor of Sports Illustrated and the editor of SI Books during his twenty years at Time Inc. He was the editor of Sports Illustrated 50th Anniversary Book, Sports Illustrated: The Baseball Book, Sports Illustrated: The Football Book, and Hate Mail from Cheerleaders, among other New York Times bestsellers.

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• Editore: Ecco Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0061189367
• ISBN 13: 9780061189364
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 289
• Redattore: Fleder Rob