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Train by Pete Dexter is a novel set in 1950s Southern California that delves into themes of race relations, corruption, and golf. The story follows Lionel "Train" Walk, a black caddy with exceptional golfing skills, who forms an unlikely partnership with Miller Packard, a white police officer seeking thrills. As the plot unfolds, the characters navigate through a world filled with violence, dark undertones, and complex moral dilemmas. Dexter's writing style is described as engaging, impelling, and akin to divine madness, leading readers through a strange plot structure with interesting characters and incidents.
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Train is an 18-year-old black caddy at an exclusive L.A. country club. He is a golf prodigy, but the year is 1953 and there is no such thing as a black golf prodigy. Nevertheless, Train draws the interest of Miller Packard, a gambler whose smiling, distracted air earned him the nickname "the Mile Away Man." Packard's easy manner hides a proclivity for violence, and he remains an enigma to Train even months later when they are winning high stakes matches against hustlers throughout the country. Packard is also drawn to Norah Still, a beautiful woman scarred in a hideous crime, a woman who finds Packard's tendency toward violence both alluring and frightening. In the ensuing triangular relationship kindness is never far from cruelty.
In Train , National Book Award-winning Pete Dexter creates a startling, irresistibly readable book that crackles with suspense and the live-wire voices of its characters.
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