Elegantly and simply written, "The Abstinence Teacher" illuminates the powerful emotions that run beneath the placid surface of modern family life, and explores the complicated spiritual and sexual lives of ordinary people.
In a suburban town, Sarah betrays her unsatisfactory husband by having an affair with Todd, whose wife is having her own qualms about their marriage. Todd's friend Larry is an ex-cop with a violent streak that surfaces when a convicted sex offender moves into the neighborhood. In a departure from his cheerful earlier novels, Tom Perrotta writes ...
In this political satire--which is, hilariously, about an election for school president in a New Jersey high school--the narrative alternates among the six candidates, who range from a maniacally ambitious girl named Tracy, to a reluctant jock named Paul, to Paul's sister Tammy, who is in love with Paul's girlfriend. In 1999, ELECTION was made ...
Tom Perrotta sets these tales in the 1970s. All of them feature Buddy, who progresses from a young Cub Scout to the end of his teenage years, following his experiences growing up in a New Jersey suburb. All of this is territory Perrotta knows well and has elaborated on skillfully in his subsequent books: this very appealing book of stories is his ...
It's the early '80s, and Danny, an upwardly mobile Yale student intoxicated with Ivy League life, is in love with Polly, a glamorous and elusive classmate whose background is very different from his own. He spends his vacations not in Aspen or Nantucket but back home in blue-collar New Jersey, where he drives his father's lunch truck (known as the ...
Although he has reached his 30s, Dave Raymond is in no rush to grow up. A guitarist in a local New Jersey band (the Wishbones), Dave lives with his parents, drives a courier truck for his cash, and dates the same girl he went out with in high school. Distraught after witnessing the death of a fellow musician, Dave impulsively asks his girlfriend ...
Not since the dawn of the music video has pop music undergone a pioneering effort as exciting as this. In LIT RIFFS, America's latest generation of celebrated storytellers joins a list of the most world-renowned rock critics in composing a unique anthology. The anthology consists of fiction, non-fiction, and free-form riffs based on the writer's ...
The new film from Oscar(R)-nominated writer/director Todd Field ("In the Bedroom"), based on the acclaimed novel by Tom Perrotta, starring Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connelly, and Patrick Wilson. "Little Children" centers on a handful of individuals whose lives intersect on the playgrounds, town pools, and streets of their small community in ...
Every company he works for goes bankrupt. His landlord just kicked him out. His parents think he's a failure. He can barely scrape up enough pennies to take the subway. And he's still dealing with his fiance leaving him on national TV. Welcome to the world of Will Leitch. In this hilarious collection, Leitch takes us on journey from small-town ...
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