by Pete Dexter · Goldmann Wilhelm GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442094103
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«Tollwütig» is the social drama novel by Pete Dexter, published by Goldmann Wilhelm GmbH in paperback (303 pages, in German).
In Cotton Point, Georgia, after the Second World War, the murder of a young Black woman brings shopkeeper Paris Trout to trial. The accused shows no remorse and takes it for granted that justice will favour him, while white society prefers to ignore its prejudices; the case ends up exposing the town's racial and class tensions.
Work originally published in English as Paris Trout, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 1988.
Aimed at readers of literary fiction, Southern narrative and crime fiction with an interest in social conflicts.
Pete Dexter is an American novelist. He won the U.S. National Book Award in 1988 for his novel Paris Trout.
