| TÃtulo : |
Paris trout |
| Tipo de documento: |
texto impreso |
| Autores: |
Dexter, Pete, Autor |
| Editorial: |
New York [US] : Penguin Books |
| Fecha de publicación: |
1988 |
| Número de páginas: |
306 p. |
| Il.: |
20 cm. |
| Dimensiones: |
impreso |
| Idioma : |
Inglés (eng) Idioma original : Inglés (eng) |
| Palabras clave: |
AMERICAN LITERATURE, PSYCHOLOGICAL NOVEL - SUSPENSE |
| Resumen: |
Paris Trout is a wealthy merchant and moneylender in a small town in the American South. Among his debtors is Henry Ray, a Black man who has decided not to pay him because he suspects—rightly—that he has been swindled. Paris Trout goes to Henry's house to demand his money, can't find it, and ends up killing Rosie, a girl Henry's mother had taken to live with her family.
It is an absurd, gratuitous murder, unjustifiable even for a racist community in the American South in the 1950s. But Paris is white, he is rich, and if he plays by the rules his lawyer suggests, he can get away with a minimal sentence. But, in addition to being rich and white, he is a psychotic who accepts no laws other than those he dictates himself, and his first crime will be merely the initial impulse to unleash his highly reasoned madness, which will engulf everyone around him in a devastating whirlwind of violence. |
| Ubicación : |
813.54/D644p |
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