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    <body><![CDATA[After finishing Perrotta's &quot;Little Children&quot;, I rushed to the bookstore to pick up another one of his books. I decided to go with this collection of short stories set in the 1970's. All of the stories follow a central character, but are not necessarily related, although all deal with a boy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10164668">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this author so I'm glad to see there is a book of his I haven't read yet. Something to look forward to :)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[read this in high school - loved it. wonderful stories about being a teenager in new jersey in the seventies.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Bad Haircut&quot; is an excellent collection of stories, ten in total, by Tom Perrotta.  Each story is around twenty pages and each takes place in the seventies, during the childhood and teenage years of one protagonist, &quot;Buddy&quot;.  <br/><br/>The stories are written in an autobiograp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28507185">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[These were the wonderyears. a great read for people who get it]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've now read all of Tom Perrotta's books and this one, billed as a collection of short stories, but really one short novel broken into episodes, may be my least favorite.  That being said, it's still a great book.  I really like everything he's done, and this is his first book, so you've gotta cut ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27394590">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies by Tom Perrotta (1997)]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Witty, wise coming of age stories. Wonderful.DS Washington Post Book World]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[great<br/><br/>hysterical]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Witty, wise coming of age stories. Wonderful.DS Washington Post Book World]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Somehow I stumbled upon this short story collection while wandering through a bookstore and have become a Tom Perotta fan ever since. If you grew up in the seventies, buy this book. It will take you back to experiences and people that have since faded from your memories. To his credit, Tom Perotta h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12296355">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is frickin awesome. A tight, well drawn collection of short stories with a bad ass 70's attitude. Scope this one out if you like to imagine what life in New Jersey in '76 was like. I bet it was awesome based on the fact that a guy in a hot dog suit beats the shit out of a teenager in this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9032825">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A pretty good collection of short stories from author Perrotta. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies]]>
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    <![CDATA[Witty, wise coming of age stories. Wonderful.DS Washington Post Book World]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Short-story collection from the author of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Election" title="Election">Election</a>, featuring a kid named Buddy at various stages of growing-up in New Jersey in the 1970s. Several of the stories are quite good, including my favorites Snowman, Forgiveness, and You Start to Live. For fans of Perrotta, there are story elements here t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22994225">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies]]>
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    <![CDATA[Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[In my opinion, this is a perfect book of short stories about moving between the realms of carefree twentysomething and an actual adult. I'm hooked on Perotta, and this collection of short stories matches the quality of his novels.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've enjoyed every other book I've read by Tom Perrotta, but not this one. I kept putting it down and picking up other things. The plot follows a normal teenager from age 10 to college, but I never really took to the main character.]]></body>
    
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