Tom Perrotta

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Tom Perrotta

Tom Perrotta is the author of five previous work of fiction: Bad Haircut, The Wishbones, Election, and the New York Times bestselling Joe College and Little Children. Election was made into the acclaimed 1999 movie directed by Alexander Payne and starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon. Little Children was released as a movie directed by Todd Field and starring Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connelly in 2006, and for which Perrotta received Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for best screenplay. He lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts.


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Tom Perrotta Q&A III

Part 3 of a Q&A with author of THE LEFTOVERS, Tom Perrotta.

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Tom Perrotta Q&A II

Part 2 of a Q&A with author of THE LEFTOVERS, Tom Perrotta.

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Tom Perrotta Q&A I

Part 1 of a Q&A with author of THE LEFTOVERS, Tom Perrotta.

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The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Tom Perrotta's novel The Abstinence Teacher. Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise children, but amid its good schools and healthy real estate market, a small-town culture war is brewing. The Abstinence Teacher focuses on two divorced parents who become adversaries in the mess: Ruth Ramsey is the human sexuality teacher at the local high school who believes that "pleasure is good, shame is bad, and knowledge is power." Her younger daughter's soccer coach is Ti

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Bad Haircut
Bad Haircut

Tom Perrotta
St. Martin's Griffin

New York Times bestselling author Tom Perrotta’s first book is "more powerful than any coming-of-age novel" —The Washington Post   Bad Haircut explores the...


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The Leftovers
The Leftovers

Tom Perrotta
St. Martin's Griffin

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011The New York Times bestseller now in paperback—A thought-provoking...


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Senior Season
Senior Season

Tom Perrotta
St. Martin's Press

A glimpse into parallel lives in a suburban town Tom Perrotta has made recognizably his in novels like ELECTION, LITTLE CHILDREN and this fall’s THE LEFTOVERS....


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The Abstinence Teacher
The Abstinence Teacher

Tom Perrotta
St. Martin's Griffin

“Perrotta is that rare combination: a satirist with heart….Those who haven’t curled up on the couch with this writer’s books are missing a very great...


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Joe College
Joe College

Tom Perrotta
St. Martin's Griffin

For many college students, Spring Break means fun and sun in Florida. For Danny, a Yale junior, it means two weeks behind the wheel of the Roach Coach, his...


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Little Children
Little Children

Tom Perrotta
St. Martin's Griffin

Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by...


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The Wishbones
The Wishbones

Tom Perrotta
Macmillan Audio

In The Wishbones, Tom Perrotta's characters are 90s adults still clinging to their 70s dreams. Thirty-one-year-old Dave Raymond has an adoring girlfriend and a...


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