Tom Perrotta





Tom Perrotta

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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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Average rating: 3.45 · 32,419 ratings · 4,853 reviews · 10 distinct works
Little Children
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 13,375 ratings — published 2004 — 30 editions
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The Abstinence Teacher
3.22 of 5 stars 3.22 avg rating — 8,390 ratings — published 2007 — 22 editions
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The Leftovers
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 4,502 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions
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Election
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 2,374 ratings — published 1998 — 9 editions
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Joe College
3.28 of 5 stars 3.28 avg rating — 1,901 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions
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The Wishbones
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 1,039 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions
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Bad Haircut: Stories of the Se...
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 718 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions
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The Smile on Happy Chang's Fac...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2010
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Senior Season
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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“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

“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

“It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.”
Tom Perrotta, Little Children

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