Train [Paperback] Dexter, Pete

Train is an 18yearold black caddy at an exclusive LA 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 Packards 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 Packards tendency toward violence both alluring and frightening In the ensuing triangular relationship kindness is never far from crueltyIn Train, National Book Awardwinning Pete Dexter creates a startling, irresistibly readable book that crackles with suspense and the livewire voices of its characters ISBN10: 037571409X ISBN13: 9780375714092Material Type: paperback