DEADWOOD, DAKOTA TERRITORIES, 1876: Legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickcock and his friend Charlie Utter have come to the Black Hills town of Deadwood fresh from Cheyenne, fleeing an ungrateful populace. Bill, aging and sick but still able to best any man in a fair gunfight, just wants to be left alone to drink and play cards. But in this town of played-out miners, bounty hunters, upstairs girls, Chinese immigrants, and various other entrepeneurs and miscreants, he finds himself pursued by a v...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“An eerie and beautiful novel . . . Its secrets continue to reveal themselves long after the book has been finished.”—The New York Times Book ReviewThe sun is rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call is found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck is tried, sentenced, and set to fry. Then Ward James, hotshot investigative reporter for the Miami Times,...

Pete Dexter’s National Book Award–winning tour de force tells the mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that shatters lives and exposes the hypocrisies of a small Southern town.The time and place: Cotton Point, Georgia, just after World War II. The event: the murder of a fourteen-year-old black girl by a respected white citizen named Paris Trout, who feels he’s done absolutely nothing wrong. As a trial looms, the crime eats away at the social fabric of Cotton Point, through its fac...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREIn this striking debut from the author of the National Book Award winner Paris Trout, Pete Dexter chronicles a murder and its consequences in the fictional blue-collar Philadelphia neighborhood of God’s Pocket.Leon Hubbard makes other men nervous, talking to himself or anyone who will listen about the things he’s cut with his straight razor. So when he crosses the wrong guy on a South Philly construction site and winds up ...

Now a major motion picture directed by Academy Award-nominated Lee Daniels and starring Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, David Oyelowo, and Macy Gray.The sun is rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call is found dead on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck is swiftly arrested, tried and sentenced to death. Ward James - hotshot investigative reporter - returns to his rural hometown, intrigued by the pro...

In the 1970s and '80s, before he earned national acclaim for his award-winning novels, Pete Dexter was a newspaper columnist. Every week, in a few hundred words, Dexter cut directly to the heart of the American character at a time of national turmoil and crucial change. With haunting urgency, his columns laid bare the violence, hypocrisy, and desperation he saw on the streets of Philadelphia and in the places he visited across the country. But he reveled, too, in the lighter side of his ow...

Nato in una cittadina della Georgia, orfano di padre e unico sopravvissuto di una coppia di gemelli, Warren Whitlow Spooner parte subito col piede sbagliato e prosegue in un'infanzia e adolescenza difficili, nelle quali per autolesionismo e dabbenaggine non fa che cacciarsi nei guai. Da sempre, il piccolo Spooner mostra un'innata inclinazione per il crimine ma anche uno strano talento, una facilità a vivere e a ripartire ogni volta da zero, come se i fallimenti e le disgrazie di cui il suo...

Paris Trout è un rispettabile commerciante della piccola cittadina di Cotton Point. Bianco, benestante, una moglie, Paris Trout è un americano perbene come tanti.Ma Paris Trout ha ucciso una ragazzina nera di quattordici anni, pensando di difendere i propri diritti e la propria libertà, per ristabilire l'ordine naturale delle cose. E questo omicidio infiamma gli ambigui sensi di colpa di un'intera comunità che improvvisamente deve guardarsi dentro, nel proprio cuore nero. Piú di tut...

Oddball, accident-prone Warren Spooner doesn't so much get along with life as crash into it head-on. Through the awkward scrapes of his childhood, to a violent and troubled adulthood, the young man is nothing if not resilient, standing up to adversity in his own dark (often extremely dark) ways.Hilarious and heartbreaking, US National Book Award-winner Pete Dexter's autobiographical magnum opus is nothing short of a tragicomic tour de force.

Hillary Van Wetter aspetta di essere giustiziato nel carcere della Moat County, Florida. È accusato dell'omicidio di Thurmond Call, uno sceriffo che ha ucciso per odio razziale ben sedici neri. Ma Charlotte Bless, appassionata di casi estremi, ha scritto una lettera al «Miami Times» sostenendo che si stava per condannare a morte un innocente, e il giornale, fiutando la pista, manda i suoi due migliori reporter nella Moat County. Sono Ward James, malinconico quanto ossessivo nella sua ricer...

Philadelphie. Quartier de God’s Pocket. Leon Hubbard meurt sur un chantier. Un peu trop vantard, la lame de rasoir à portée de main, il a provoqué une fois de trop un de ses collègues. Version officielle : accident du travail. Mais sa mère et d’autres gens du coin veulent en savoir plus. L’affaire prend de l’ampleur, la mafia s’en mêle et Richard Shellburn, journaliste spécialisé dans les faits divers, est envoyé par son rédacteur en chef pour mener sa propre enquête.Avec ce premie...

Leon Hubbard ha ventiquattro anni, fa il muratore in un quartiere di Filadelfia. È la disperazione del suo caposquadra, perché è il classico ragazzo sempre in cerca di guai. Non perde mai occasione di estrarre il rasoio che porta nella tasca posteriore.Ci fa tutto, con quella lama. Ci mangia, ci dorme, ci scherza, forse ci fa pure l'amore. Un giorno, però, ci fa qualcosa di sbagliato. Lo piazza sotto la gola di un collega, il quale per tutta risposta gli fracassa il cranio. Quando l...