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The Paperboy (novel)
1995 novel by Pete Dexter
First edition | |
| Author | Pete Dexter |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | 1995 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-385-31572-4 |
The Paperboy is a 1995 novel published by American author Pete Dexter.
Plot
Hillary Van Wetter was jailed for the murder of an unscrupulous local sheriff, Thurmond Call. Call had previously stomped Wetter's handcuffed cousin to death. Wetter is now on death row and awaiting execution. In prison Wetter receives correspondence from Charlotte Bless, a woman he has never met but who has fallen in love with him and is determined that he should be released and that they should marry.
Bless provokes immense sexual tension in any situation, given her beauty and presence. Bless attempts to prove Wetter's innocence by enlisting the support of two investigative reporters from a Miami newspaper hungry for a salacious story: the ambitious Yardley Acheman and the naive, idealistic W
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Digging for the News : A fictional investigative team gets the goods : THE PAPERBOY, <i> By Pete Dexter (Random House: $23; 307 pp.)</i>
Paris Trout, the violently bigoted Southerner who, in Pete Dexter’s novel of the same name, stood monstrously for the darkest human and social instincts, has spawned several baleful fingerlings.
There is, at the start of Dexter’s new novel, “The Paperboy,” Sheriff Thurmond Call of Moat County, Florida. He had, “even by the standards of Moat County, killed an inappropriate number of Negroes in the line of duty.” Sixteen, in fact; which his fellow whites saw as a sign not of depravity but of a pardonable nervous imbalance. It was the mid-1960s and the era’s mixed signals were too much for an old-time lawman. Dexter’s wicked silken line is at its finest: “Hippies, federal judges, Negroes--he couldn’t keep track of what he was allowed to do to them and what he wasn’t.”
When Call kicked a white man to death on a public street it was a trifle graver. This was so even though the dead man, a member of the murderous van Wetter swamp clan, w
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The Paperboy (2012 film)
American film by Lee Daniels
The Paperboy is a 2012 American crime dramathriller film co-written and directed by Lee Daniels and based on Pete Dexter's 1995 novel of the same name. The novel was inspired by a true story. It follows Miami reporter Ward Jansen who returns to his hometown in Florida to investigate a murder case involving a death row inmate. The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, David Oyelowo, John Cusack and Macy Gray.
The film was produced by Daniels, Hilary Shor, Avi Lerner, Ed Cathell III, and Cassian Elwes. It premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival on May 24, 2012[3] and October 5, 2012 worldwide. It grossed $102,706 in its opening weekend and $3.8 million worldwide, against a budget of $12.5 million, making it a box office bomb.[4] Despite its mixed reviews, Kidman's performance drew Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.[5]
Plot
Anita, the former maid of the Jansen family, narrates the events of the summer of 1969 when Ward Jansen, an idealist
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