Tom Perrotta, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-31571-9
The characters in this intelligent, absorbing tale of suburban angst are constrained and defined by their relationship to children. There's Sarah, an erstwhile bisexual feminist who finds herself an unhappy mother and wife to a branding...
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Tom Perrotta, Author . St. Martin’s $24.95 (358p) ISBN 978-0-312-35833-4
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Tom Perrotta knows his suburbia, and in The Abstinence Teacher
he carves out an even larger chunk of his distinct terrain. Set in the northeastern suburb of Stonewood Heights, Perrotta’s sixth book...
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Tom Perrotta, Author Bridge Works Publishing Company $18.95 (197p) ISBN 978-1-882593-05-7
Amid the current glut of '70s nostalgia, Perrotta has fashioned a moving cycle of stories that looks past the era's celebrated kitsch to still relevant social and cultural issues and the timeless mysteries of growing up. In 10 tales covering a...
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Tom Perrotta, Author Putnam Publishing Group $21.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-399-14366-3
A far cry from Sweet Valley High, this wry, engaging story of a 1992 high-school election in a New Jersey town ""a couple of exits"" away from Glen Ridge is observant and sly, if less amusing than the battles over pop-musical taste in Perrotta's...
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Tom Perrotta, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-26184-9
HYale junior Danny is the winning narrator of Perrotta's fourth bookD""winning"" not just because he's smart and funny, but also because when it comes to college life, love and misbehavior, the guy always comes out on top. Conflicts in his life are...
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Tom Perrotta. St. Martin's, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-35834-1
Perrotta (The Abstinence Teacher) gets seriously dystopian with his sixth novel when millions of people vanish into thin air one fine October day. Although the "Sudden Departure" resembles the Rapture, it was a secular event, leaving a hodgepodge of
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Tom Perrotta. St. Martin’s, $25.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-250-03470-0
Told with wit and grace, Perrotta’s (The Leftovers) story collection lays bare the shifting relationships we all suffer and seldom comprehend, presenting characters who are ambushed by the hidden intentions of people they thought they knew. After...
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Tom Perrotta, Author, Tom Perotta, Author Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-399-14267-3
What makes this late coming-of-age novel original and fresh is the arch, incisive humor and pop-music riffs that Perrotta adds to an old story: man proposes to one woman, then promptly falls in love with another. Dave Raymond is guitarist for the...
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Tom Perrotta, read by Dennis Boutsikaris. Macmillan Audio, , unabridged, eight CDs, 10.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-1322-8
Having recorded works by everyone from Don DeLillo to Richard North Patterson, Dennis Boutsikaris is the ideal audio jack-of-all-trades for Perrotta’s darkly comic novel of American life after the Rapture. Boutsikaris captures the tender longing of...
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Tom Perrotta, Author, Campbell Scott, Read by , read by Campbell Scott. Macmillan Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0191-1
Campbell Scott's soft but edgy voice, earnest but with a sarcastic undertone, is a supremely apt fit for Perrotta's skewering of modern society. He is equally convincingly whether playing Ruth, a divorced mother and sex-education teacher...
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Julianna Baggott, Author, Jonathan Lethem, Author, Tom Perrotta, Author MTV Books $25.99 (436p) ISBN 978-0-7434-7026-1
Writers pay homage to rockers in Lit Riffs, a collection of 24 stories inspired by songs. Edited by Matthew Miele, the book features a familiar list of hip young literary lights offering good-but perhaps not their best-work. Jonathan Letham,...
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Tom Perrotta. Scribner, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5011-4402-8
Divorced since her husband decamped years ago, 46-year-old Eve Fletcher is bereft when her son, Brendan, whom she has helicopter-parented, goes off to college. Receiving a shocking anonymous email—“U r my MILF! Send me a naked pic!!”—reawakens her...
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Tom Perrotta, read by Carrie Coon and Finn Wittrock, with a full cast. S&S Audio, unabridged, 9 CDs, 11 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-5082-3282-7
The enticing audio edition of Perrotta’s latest novel features a large cast tackling the perspectives of multiple characters. Top-billed actors Coon and Whitrock shine in giving voice to the two main characters, 40-something divorcée Eve Fletcher...
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Tom Perrotta. Scribner, $27 (272p) ISBN 978-1-5011-4406-6
The heroine of Perrotta’s Election returns in this sharp and perfectly executed story of frustrated ambition. Having failed to achieve her youthful career goals, Tracy Flick, now in her mid-40s, is an assistant principal at a New Jersey high school...
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