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Novelist Dexter Back on Track with 'Train'

NPR | By Tom Vitale
Published October 31, 2003 at 10:00 PM MST

Pete Dexter, author of the award-winning Paris Trout, has published his first novel in eight years. It's called Train, and it tells the story of a black caddy, a white cop and a wealthy widow in 1950s Los Angeles.

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Tom Vitale
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