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Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not about Marriage Hardback - 2007
by Pete Dexter
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In the 1970s and 1980s, 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 own life, sharing scenes with the indefatigable Mrs. Dexter, their young daughter, and a series of unforgettable creatures who strayed into their lives. No matter what caught Dexter's eye, it was illuminated by his dark, brilliant humor. Collected here for the first time are eighty-two of the best of those spellbinding, finely wrought pieces—with a new introduction by the author—assembled by Rob Fleder, editor of the bestselling Sports Illustrated 50th Anniversary Book. Paper Trails is searing, heart-breaking, and irresistibly funny, sometimes all at once. As Pete Hamill says in his foreword, these essays "are as good as it ever gets."
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- Title Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not about Marriage
- Author Pete Dexter
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press, New York
- Publication date February 6, 2007
- ISBN 9780061189357 / 0061189359
- Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.05 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.67 cm)
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Library of Congress subjects American wit and humor, American essays
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007274935
- Dewey Decimal Code 814.54
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