Books
February, 1995
Pete Dexter's new novel, The Paperboy (Random House), is a dark meditation on the responsibilities of the news media. It is also a tale about the powerful relationships between a father and his two sons. But most of all, this riveting novel is about the burden of guilty knowledge, the way a lie insidiously devours the place where it is embedded.Dexter's story begins with a pair of investigative reporters from the Miami Times who go to a small town in Moat County, Florida in 1969 to reexamine the...
