Tom Perrotta

• May-2026
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From New York Times bestselling author Tom Perrotta, hailed by critics as "the Steinbeck of Suburbia" (Time), "our Balzac of the burbs" (Chicago Sun-Times), and "an American Chekhov" (The New York Times), comes a gripping and darkly nostalgic tale ab...

• Jun-2022
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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon"Tom Perrotta is...one of the great writers that we have today. I love this book." -- Harlan CobenAn "engrossing and mordantly funny" (People) novel about ambition, coming-of-age in adultho...

• Aug-2017
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• Aug-2017
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From one of the most popular and bestselling authors of our time, a penetrating and hilarious new novel about sex, love, and identity on the frontlines of America's culture wars. Eve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A forty-six-ye...

• Sep-2013
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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 lost and found --...

• Aug-2013
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The public and private self-images of a high school math teacher uncomfortably collide when she has a coffee date with a student who has posted negative comments about her on grademyteacher.com The story, set at and around small-town Gifford High ...

• Oct-2012
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The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading wri...

• Sep-2011
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What if -- whoosh, right now, with no explanation -- a number of us simply vanished? Would some of us collapse? Would others of us go on, one foot in front of the other, as we did before the world turned upside down? That's what the bewildered ci...

• Aug-2011
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Clay wouldn't have said his life was defined by his place on the high school football team's roster, but when he's sidelined by injury, everything, including his sense of self, seems different. And it's not just that his concussion was bad enough to...

• Oct-2007
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Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise children: it has the proverbial good schools, solid values and a healthy real estate market. It's the kind of place where parents are involved in their children's lives -- coaching sports, driving carpo...

• Mar-2004
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TOM PEROTTA'S thirtyish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad, dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms at the playground, and his wife, Kathy, a documentary filmmaker envious of the connec...

• Sep-2000
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"An absorbing, fleshed-out portrait of an American male edging toward adulthood" from the New York Times -- bestselling author of Bad Haircut (The New York Times Book Review).A New York Times Notable Book of the Year For many college students, Spr...

• Mar-1998
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Tracy Flick Can't Win comes a darkly hilarious novel about a high school election that brings out the worst in everyone -- the basis for the film starring Reese Witherspoon!Tracy Flick w...

• May-1997
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A thirty-one-year-old rock'n'roll guitarist decides to get married, only to begin an affair with Gretchen, a New York poet, and finds himself torn between letting his dreams die and having a steady gig. A first novel....

• Oct-1995
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From the New York Times -- bestselling author of The Leftovers: "Darkly tender, simply written tales about growing up in the Garden State in the 1970s." -- The New York Times Book Review The ten rich stories here span from 1969 to 1980 and are li...