Joe College

A Novel

Tom Perrotta

St. Martin's Griffin

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Populated by a vividly drawn cast of characters -- Yale students and lunch truck drivers alike -- JOE COLLEGE evokes two radically different worlds through Tom Perrotta's distinctive combination of humor, sweetness, and telling detail. JOE COLLEGE is a serious comic novel about love, higher education, and food service, a uniquely American story about the mistakes we sometimes make and the illusions we have to shed on the way to finding our place in the world.

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Joe College
part onepencil dicksAll through that winter and into the spring, when our Tuesday- and Thursday-night dinner shifts were done, Matt and I would sit at the long table near the salad bar and plan his end-of-the-year party, our voices echoing importantly in the cavernous wood-panelled dining hall."What do you think?" he asked. "We gonna need more than two kegs?""Depends, I guess. How many people are coming?""A lot." Matt fixed me with those weirdly translucent blue eyes of his, eyes that sometimes made me think I was looking straight into his head.

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"An overwhelmingly pleasing book"--The New York Times
 
"An absorbing, fleshed-out portrait of an American male edging toward adulthood by crossing seemingly rigid social boundaries."--The New York Times Book Review
 
"Companionable and humane, lighthearted and surprisingly touching."--Newsweek
 
“Perrotta transforms eighties nostalgia into art.”—Entertainment Weekly

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Tom Perrotta is also the author of LITTLE CHILDREN, ELECTION, THE WISHBONES and BAD HAIRCUT.  He lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.

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Joe College
A Novel
Tom Perrotta

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St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Griffin
September 2006
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ISBN: 9780312361785
ISBN10: 0312361785
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 320 pages
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October 2001
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