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Also by Pete Dexter:

Spooner, November 2010
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Spooner, October 2009
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Paper Trails, February 2007
Hardcover
The Paperboy, January 1996
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SPOONER
By: Pete Dexter

Grand Central Publishing
October 2009
On Sale: September 24, 2009
480 pages
ISBN: 0446540722
EAN: 9780446540728
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant young naval officer, Calmer Ottosson, recently court-martialed out of service. This is the story of the lifelong tie between the two men, poles apart, of Spooner's troubled childhood, troubled adolescence, violent and troubled adulthood and Calmer Ottosson's inexhaustible patience, undertaking a life-long struggle to salvage his step-son, a man he will never understand.

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