by Pete Dexter · POINTS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782757827932
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«Spooner» is Pete Dexter's picaresque novel, published by Points in paperback (576 pages, in French).
The novel follows Warren Spooner from his birth in Georgia in 1956. After his father's death, Calmer Ottosson, a former naval officer, becomes his stepfather and devotes his life to trying to control a rebellious boy who turns into a violent adult. Alternating drama and comedy, it narrates the lifelong bond between stepson and stepfather.
Translation from English (US) by Olivier Deparis. Work originally published in 2009; this French edition is from 2012.
Literary fiction with a humorous register, aimed at an adult audience and suitable for reading clubs.
Pete Dexter is an American novelist. He won the U.S. National Book Award in 1988 for his novel Paris Trout.
