Pete Dexter writes American literary fiction about violence, journalism, race and men whose attempts at control repeatedly fail. Paris Trout centres on a violent white businessman in 1950s Georgia and the community forced to confront his crimes, while God's Pocket moves through a working-class Philadelphia neighbourhood after a young man's death. The Paperboy follows reporters investigating a death-row case in Florida, mixing crime, obsession and family tension. Dexter's prose is plain, darkly funny and unsentimental, with violence usually producing messy consequences rather than heroic resolution. His work fits Southern fiction, literary crime, working-class fiction and American noir. Read more Less
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