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Tom Perrottaauthor profile |
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| born | August 13, 1961 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| gender | male | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| website | http://www.tomperrotta.net/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| genre | Literature & Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| influences | Raymond Carver, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Tobias Wolff | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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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books by Tom Perrottacombine editionsavg rating: 3.49 | 8750 ratings | 9 distinct works
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quotes by Tom Perrotta
" "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)
"On the first day of Human Sexuality, Ruth Ramsey wore a short lime green skirt, a clingy black top, and strappy high-heeled sandals, the kind of attention-getting outfit she normally wouldn't have worn on a date---not that she was going on a lot of dates these days---let alone to work. "
— Tom Perrotta (The Abstinence Teacher)
— Tom Perrotta (The Abstinence Teacher)
"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)