Deadwood by Pete Dexter
DEADWOD, DAKOTA TERITORIES, 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 vicious sheriff, a perverse whore man bent on revenge, and a besotted Calamity Jane. Fueled by liquor, sex, and violence, this is the real wild west, unlike anything portrayed in the dime novels that first told its story.Pete Dexter started his career as a U.S. Marine. In New Orleans, Louisiana, there is a post office. He quit mail because he wasn't very good at it, then got a job as a newspaper reporter in Florida, which he was not very good at, got married, and was not very good at it either. He became a newspaper columnist in Philadelphia, which he was quite good at, and he divorced, which you'd have to say he was quite good at because it only cost $300. Dexter remarried, won the National Book Award, and constructed a mansion in the desert so far away from civilization that no mail is delivered. He works at the post office six months a year, living proof of the proverb What goes around comes around--that is, you quit the post office, pal, and the post office quits you.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780140127294 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140127291 |
| Title | Deadwood |
| Author | Pete Dexter |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 1989-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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