In trade paperback. National Book Award winner Pete Dexter has written a supremely impressive piece of fiction that is clearly the novel of his life, the book he was born to write. Pete Dexter's new novel follows Warren SPOONER, a good man who is forced to deal with a reckless stepson who is hell-bent on self-destruction. 'One of the greatest American writers...a storyteller who cuts straight to the nerve."-Scott L. Turow.