Train by Pete Dexter
Train is a 18-year-old black caddy at an exclusive L.A. country club. He is a golf prodigy, but the year is 1953 and there is no such thing as a black golf prodigy. Nevertheless, Train draws the interest of Miller Packard, a gambler whose smiling, distracted air earned him the nickname the Mile Away Man. Packard's easy manner hides a proclivity for violence, and he remains an enigma to Train even months later when they are winning high stakes matches against hustlers throughout the country. Packard is also drawn to Norah Still, a beautiful woman scared in a hideous crime, a woman who finds Packard's tendency toward violence both alluring and frightening. In the ensuing triangular relationship kindness is never far from cruelty. In Train, National Book Award-winning Pete Dexter creates a startling, irresistibly readable book that crackles with suspense and the live-wire voices of its characters.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 | 9780385505918 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385505914 |
| Title | Train |
| Author | Pete Dexter |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Year published | 2003-10-07 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Prizes | Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Fiction) 2003 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |