"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 pleasure."—Seattle TimesStonewood Heights is the perfect place to rais...
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 ...
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Tom PerrottaIn 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 co...
A startling, thought-provoking novel about love, connection and loss from the New York Times bestselling author of The Abstinence Teacher and Little Children.What if the Rapture happened and you got left behind? Or what if it wasn't t...
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 reluc...
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 vaca...
The new collection from the New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Little Children, featuring stories focusing on Perrotta's familiar suburban nuclear familiesTom Perrotta's first book, Bad Haircut, consisted of link...
Tom Perrotta's first novel, The Wishbones, is all about that much-maligned class of 30-ish men who still live at home with their parents, guys who make furtive love to their girlfriends--if they have them at all--in the basement rec r...
Nine Inches, Tom Perrotta's first true collection, features ten stories—some sharp and funny, some mordant and surprising, and a few intense and disturbing. Whether he's dropping into the lives of two teachers—and their love l...
Now an HBO series starring Kathryn Hahn!\r\n \r\n“Light, zingy, and laugh-out-loud funny”(People), the New York Times bestselling novel about sex, love, and identity as seen through the eyes of a middle-aged woman and her ...
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 \r\nA Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011\r\nA USA Today 10 Books We Loved Reading in 2011 Title\r\nOne of NPR\'s 10 Best Novels of 2011 \r\n\r\nWhat ifwhoosh, right now, with no ...