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 the moms of the playground; Sarah, a lapsed feminist with a bisexual past, who seems to have...
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers 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 and Matthew Broderick!
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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 themes that have fascinated Perrotta throughout his career: suburban rituals and mores; sports...
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, Grade My Teacher, set at and around...
Dave Raymond, lead guitarist of New Jersey wedding band The Wishbones, dreams of rock fame. Unfortunately, the future of the band is in jeopardy. Then the Wishbones get a gig on a cable TV show fronted by a Nazi, and Dave's problems grow even more...
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. Clay wouldn't have said his life was defined by his place on the high school football...
Having penned Election, a great novel of high-school manners, Tom Perrotta gives us Joe College, a great novel about college mores. In 1982, one Yale junior struggles with George Eliot, dorm blanket bingo, dining-hall dish-line duty, a massive crush...