Tom Perrotta
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born
August 13, 1961
gender
male
place of birth
The United States
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genre
Literature & Fiction
influences
Raymond Carver, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Tobias Wolff
about this author
Tom Perrotta (born August 13, 1961) is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his novels Election (1998) and Little Children (2004), both of which were made into critically acclaimed, Golden Globe-nominated films. Perrotta co-wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film version of Little Children with Todd Field, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Little Children by Tom Perrotta avg rating 3.52 — 7,420 ratings — published 2004 23 editions |
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The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta avg rating 3.24 — 4,676 ratings — published 2007 18 editions |
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Election by Tom Perrotta avg rating 3.80 — 989 ratings — published 1998 4 editions |
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Joe College by Tom Perrotta avg rating 3.25 — 1,075 ratings — published 2000 4 editions |
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The Wishbones by Tom Perrotta avg rating 3.45 — 467 ratings — published 1997 5 editions |
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Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies by Tom Perrotta avg rating 3.66 — 336 ratings — published 1994 3 editions |
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Lit Riffs by Jonathan Lethem, Tom Perrotta avg rating 3.26 — 61 ratings — published 2004 2 editions |
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Little Children: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Scripts Series) by Todd Field, Tom Perrotta avg rating 3.59 — 27 ratings — published 2007 |
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Life As a Loser by Will Leitch, Tom Perrotta avg rating 3.31 — 29 ratings — published 2005 |
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Lit Riffs by Matthew Miele, Jonathan Lethem, Lester Bangs, Tom Perrotta, Amanda Davis, Aimee Bender, Toure, Neal Pollack (Goodreads author) more... avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2007 |
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"After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice."
— Tom Perrotta (Little Children)
— Tom Perrotta (Little Children)
"From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise."
— Tom Perrotta (Joe College)
— Tom Perrotta (Joe College)
" "Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not." "
— Tom Perrotta (The Abstinence Teacher)
— Tom Perrotta (The Abstinence Teacher)
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| The Next Best Boo...: OFFICIAL WINTER CHALLENGE - 2008/2009 | 2174 | 3270 | Mar 04, 2009 07:03AM | |
| Novel Ladies: Cindy's Reading Log | 8 | 28 | Jul 01, 2009 05:54AM | |
| I Love Lists: Tom Perrotta's Top Ten | 1 | 11 | Aug 14, 2009 08:27AM | |
| The Book Challenge: Jennifer's 2009 Book Challenge | 19 | 213 | Sep 01, 2009 03:42PM | |
| 50 Books A Year: Revzonian's Reading Challenge 2009 | 31 | 135 | Sep 07, 2009 07:27AM | |
| College Students! : WINNERS for November! | 32 | 98 | 16 days ago, 06:03PM | |
| 50 Books A Year: Crispy's 2009 books | 36 | 158 | 4 days ago, 02:31PM | |
| The Next Best Boo...: The Title Game | 6488 | 5923 | 3 hours, 12 min ago |
