God's Pocket

I started following Pete Dexter as a columnist for The Daily News, in Philadelphia. His stories of what most people would call the "underside" of big city life were made incredibly compelling, even if you knew the people in them were probably waiting to do you some serious harm. There was usually s......more

Dexter’s sense of terror and comedy is firmly in place in his very first novel.The book follows the impact the random murder of an unrepentant sociopath on the neighborhood he is from and a couple other unfortunate outsiders pulled into the events. The story told is one featuring painfully exquisite......more

The pacing, the language that he commands with such ease, wonderful characters who can surprise without beggaring belief. Dexter chooses just the right details to sketch the individuals and their surroundings omitting anything surplus. You know where you are, who you're with, no loose ends. How is t......more

Nominell ein Kriminalroman, hat man es bei Pete Dexters GOD´S POCKET (1983/Dt. 2010) eigentlich mit der Alltagsbeschreibung einer Stadt und einiger exemplarischer, dort gelebter Leben zu tun, wobei die Ereignisse aus vielerlei Perspektiven erzählt werden. So wird die Story irgendwann nur noch zu ein......more

Pete Dexter’s, former Philadelphia newspaper columnist, first novel God’s Pocket is a soul searching dive into the depths of the underbelly life, and day-to-day existence of a white blue collar, crime and alcohol invested Philly neighborhood, of the early ‘80’s. [actual neighborhood is Devil’s Pocke......more