[Yale-readings] Pete Dexter Reading at NH Public Library

[Nancy Kuhl]

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>This Saturday, February 5, 3:00 pm  (please come early as seating is limited)
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>National Book Award winner PETE DEXTER, reads and discusses his latest 
>book, Train.
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>A troubled, keenly intelligent kid with no particular interest in his own 
>prodigious talent for the game, he keeps his head down and his mouth shut 
>as he navigates his way between the careless hostility of his "totes" and 
>the explosive brutality of the other caddies.
>"Train is another morally questioning, tough-guy novel...Dexter's writing 
>is a living thing. It doesn't draw attention to itself; it just works."
>-USA Today
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>Pete Dexter best-selling novel Paris Trout won the National Book Award in 
>1988. His 1996 novel The Paperboy was praised as "eerie and beautiful" by 
>The New York Times.
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>New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm Street, Program Room, lower level.
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>Please note that there will a BOOK SWAP prior to the reading starting at 
>2:30 pm.  PETE DEXTER reading and BOOK SWAP are FREE and open to the 
>public. Bring 1 book and leave with 3, bring none and leave with 1.
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>Contact: 
><http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=john.jessen@nhfpl.org>john.jessen at nhfpl.org 
>946-7001
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