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- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
- ISBN: 0446540722
- WAPI (Tower ID): 113354529
- Release Date: September 24, 2009
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #30923 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #3308 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #1115 in General (See Top 100 General Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Spooner" by Pete Dexter to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Spooner"Browse more products related to "Pete Dexter"Review"[SPOONER is] a wonderful reminder that Dexter's journalistic eye for the tellingly instructive detail, particularly as it evokes character, still is second to none and that he remains a leading practitioner of what might be called comic realism...." "[I put] SPOONER near the top of my list of great American novels.....Page after page, like a boxer pummeling an overmatched opponent, Dexter hammers out writing just this side of sanity, revealing the sort of thoughts and inner narrative and bizarre insights other authors might occasionally entertain but wouldn't dare commit to the printed page....SPOONER reveals the circumstances of Dexter's life, but the Spooner version is told through observations most folks, for the sake of sanity, would just as soon keep locked away in their inner psyche." "Dexter brings Warren Spooner to ground and to life with uncharacteristic expansiveness and tenderness. Spooner is a family epic that digs out the emotions packed in memory's earliest bonds--guilt, resentment, loyalty and love....[Dexter] unearths the experiences that underlie [our] nuanced sensibility, exposing the familial archetypes that shade his characters and directly engaging the potent emotions that emerge obliquely in his other books." "As always, Dexter is a lapidary stylist with a keen and unsparing eye for the world....What distinguishes SPOONER from Dexter's previous work is that it is funny. Really funny. It is more in the vein of John Irving than the author's customary white-knuckle prose." "Dexter...will make you laugh yourself into a fit one page and hold back tears the next....Throughout this sprawling heart-thumper of a read, the writing goes down like a feast." Publisher's noteLosing his father shortly after birth, Warren Spooner endures a troubled childhood and even more troubled young adulthood that is marked by his dishonorably discharged stepfather, whose inexhaustible patience is tested by the difficult Warren. By the National Book Award-winning author of Paris Trout. Losing his father shortly after birth, Warren Spooner endures a troubled childhood and even more troubled young adulthood that is marked by his dishonorably discharged stepfather, whose inexhaustible patience is tested by the difficult Warren. By the National Book Award-winning author of Paris Trout. Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant young naval officer, Calmer Ottosson, recently court-martialed out of service. This is the story of the lifelong tie between the two men, poles apart, of Spooner's troubled childhood, troubled adolescence, violent and troubled adulthood and Calmer Ottosson's inexhaustible patience, undertaking a life-long struggle to salvage his step-son, a man he will never understand. AnnotationWarren Spooner is born alongside his dead twin, and things get worse for him from there. His natural bad luck isn't helped by his penchant for criminal and foolish behavior as he blunders through life. His tragicomic misadventures as a baseball player, a beat reporter, and novelist are at odds with the philosophy of his upright naval officer stepfather, whose dedication to family and right-living clash mightily with Spooner's wild antics. National Book Award-winner Pete Dexter (PARIS TROUT, DEADWOOD) has spun out a rambling, twisted, frequently funny picaresque tale that, like his previous work, captures the American spirit in both its viciousness and vitality. If You Enjoy "Spooner (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Spooner (Hardcover)" by Pete Dexter (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! General Bestsellers
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