Abby's review
Election by Tom Perrotta
When I first saw the movie back in the 1990s, I hadn't embraced my dark side yet. I thought it was depressing and left me with the feeling of, "Now what?"
Of course, as I grew older, I realized that not everything has a happy ending. And I learned how to make fun of the bad parts of life. So when I picked up Election in a bookstore a few years ago, I figured I'd give it a go. Very smart move on my part.
Election is an interesting spin for Perrotta--it's the only novel he has written where the P.O.V. alternates between characters. He keeps it fresh, refusing to repeat the same scenario through different voices, a problem that several authors encounter when they try to switch up the narrators. No, Perrotta makes it believable when he goes from Mr. M to Mr. M's "mortal enemy", Tracy Flick.
The basic plotline itself is a little bizarre: a high school Government teacher determined to take the school's most ambitious (and cutthroat) student down a few-pegs, even...more
Of course, as I grew older, I realized that not everything has a happy ending. And I learned how to make fun of the bad parts of life. So when I picked up Election in a bookstore a few years ago, I figured I'd give it a go. Very smart move on my part.
Election is an interesting spin for Perrotta--it's the only novel he has written where the P.O.V. alternates between characters. He keeps it fresh, refusing to repeat the same scenario through different voices, a problem that several authors encounter when they try to switch up the narrators. No, Perrotta makes it believable when he goes from Mr. M to Mr. M's "mortal enemy", Tracy Flick.
The basic plotline itself is a little bizarre: a high school Government teacher determined to take the school's most ambitious (and cutthroat) student down a few-pegs, even...more
