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Train

Los Angeles, 1953. Lionel Walk is a young black caddy at Brookline, the oldest, most exclusive country club in the city, where he is known by the nickname "Train." A troubled, keenly intelligent kid with no particular interest in his own prodigious talent for the game, he keeps his head down and his mouth shut as he navigates his way between the careless hostility of his "totes" and the explosive brutality of the other caddies. Miller Packard, a sergeant with the San Diego police department, first appears on the boy's horizon as a distracted gambler, bored with ordinary risks. Train names him the "Mile-Away Man" as they walk off the first tee, and even months later, when they have become partners of a sort and are winning high-stakes matches against golf hustlers all over the country, the Mile-Away Man is a puzzle to Train, remote and intimate, impulsive and thoughtful, often all at the same time.

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  • "Dexter's new book is about pain: the men and women who deliver the emotional and physical blows and the limits of those who bend and break beneath them. This is a theme that runs like a dark thread through Dexter's work, from his prize winning Paris Trout to the Paperboy. No one escapes unscathed, and that includes the reader."
  • "Navigating his way between hostile patrons and brutal fellow workers, African American caddy Train finds an ally in a police detective who encourages Train's ambitions and oversees a case involving a boat hijacking and a beautiful widow."
  • "Dans la société raciste de Los Angeles en 1953, le destin de Lionel Walk, dit Train, un caddie noir de 18 ans. Ses dons pour le golf le font repérer par l'inspecteur Miller Packard. Mais les Noirs n'ont pas de place sur le green. Lorsqu'au cours du cambriolage d'un yacht, le propriétaire est tué et sa femme violée par deux caddies, Train est renvoyé. Une longue période d'errance commence."
  • "Los Angeles, 1953. Lionel Walk is a young black caddy at Brookline, the oldest, most exclusive country club in the city, where he is known by the nickname "Train." A troubled, keenly intelligent kid with no particular interest in his own prodigious talent for the game, he keeps his head down and his mouth shut as he navigates his way between the careless hostility of his "totes" and the explosive brutality of the other caddies. Miller Packard, a sergeant with the San Diego police department, first appears on the boy's horizon as a distracted gambler, bored with ordinary risks. Train names him the "Mile-Away Man" as they walk off the first tee, and even months later, when they have become partners of a sort and are winning high-stakes matches against golf hustlers all over the country, the Mile-Away Man is a puzzle to Train, remote and intimate, impulsive and thoughtful, often all at the same time."@en
  • "Lionel Walk, better known as Train, is a young black caddy at an elite Los Angeles golf course. There, he navigates between the careless hostility of patrons and the volatile brutality of the other caddies. One day, he finds an unexpected protector: police sergeant Miller Packer, who Train dubs "the Mile-Away Man" for his distant gaze. Packer is investigating a botched and bloody boat hijacking that left a lone survivor: achingly beautiful Norah Still. When the lives of these three people intersect, both violence and tenderness swiftly rise to the surface."
  • "In het Los Angeles van de jaren vijftig van de 20e eeuw wordt een jonge zwarte caddy ondanks het rassenvooroordeel gelanceerd als superieure tegenspeler van blanke golfsterren."
  • "Counter Los Angeles, 1953. Lionel Walk is a young black caddy at Brookline, the oldest, most exclusive country club in the city, where he is known by the nickname "Train." A troubled, keenly intelligent kid with no particular interest in his own prodigious talent for the game, he keeps his head down and his mouth shut as he navigates his way between the careless hostility of his "totes" and the explosive brutality of the other caddies. Miller Packard, a sergeant with the San Diego police department, first appears on the boy's horizon as a distracted gambler, bored with ordinary risks. Train names him the 'Mile-Away Man' as they walk off the first tee, and even months later, when they have become partners of a sort and are winning high-stakes matches against golf hustlers all over the country, the Mile-Away Man is a puzzle to Train, remote and intimate, impulsive and thoughtful, often all at the same time. Packard is also a puzzle to Norah Still, the beautiful lone survivor of a terrifying yacht hijacking, who is both aroused and repulsed by his violent and detached manner at the crime scene. Packard himself feels no such ambiguity. He is unequivocally drawn to Norah - and perhaps to what has happened to her - and an odd, volatile triangle takes shape, Packard pulling the other two relentlessly into deeper water, away from what is safe. With his trademark economy of style, Dexter brings these characters to life in their most reckless, vulnerable moments, stripping away words and manners until all that is left is the basic human pulse."@en

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  • "Texts"
  • "Roman policier"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Roman historique"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en

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  • "Train : roman"
  • "Train Roman"
  • "Train"@it
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  • "Train"
  • "Train"@en
  • "Train Kriminalroman"
  • "Train a novel"
  • "Train a novel"@en
  • "Train : a novel"@en
  • "Train : a novel"

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