Brotherly Love
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1991. Limited First Edition. Full Leather. Fine / No Jacket as Issued. Item #5309
A handsome dark brown leather Limited First Edition SIGNED by the author, novelist, reporter and columnist, Pete Dexter. In fine unread condition. With gold-gilt cover designs and page edges, and bound-in silk bookmark. His other works include "God's Pocket," "Deadwood," "Brotherly Love," "The Paperboy," and "Paris Trout" for which he earned the 1988 National Book Award.
Journalist Jesse Pearson's introduction of Pete Dexter in a Vice Magazine interview (Volume 16, Issue 12) presents an irresistibly interesting portrait: "Pete Dexter is a tough son of a bitch with the kind heart of a natural humorist. Besides writing hard-edged, blackly funny, and beautifully observed novels, he’s spent a lot of time boxing for exercise and fun, and he once got beaten so badly by an angry mob in Philadelphia that his back was broken. He then (due to a botched administration of anesthetic) underwent the ensuing surgery paralyzed and mute but wide-awake and decidedly not numbed. This is the kind of stuff that could literally kill someone without the amount of heart that Dexter has. After that incident, he left his career as a newspaper columnist and turned to writing fiction, starting with 1983’s "God’s Pocket." His second book, "Deadwood," came out in 1986 and still reigns as one of the greatest westerns ever written."
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