Diana's review
The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta
This is a copy of the review i wrote for boldtype, I really dug this book a lot:
FICTION
The Abstinence Teacher
by Tom Perrotta
Published: October 2007
Pages: 368
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Links:
Author website
Post Road interview
Fresh Air interview
“The Abstinence Teacher accomplishes what many politicians wish they could achieve: it's lively and entertaining while also remaining impartial.”
Review
The master of suburban angst strikes again, and this time not even Jesus is safe. Tom Perrotta, author and adapter-to-film of Election and Little Children , often begins his novels in places where the streets and the houses all look the same and the people enjoy comfortable lives — until something breaks through the white picket fences to make them fight for a cause greater than themselves. In The Abstinence Teacher, it's not a high-school class election or the neighborhood pedophile tearing a community apart, but something much murkier and even more contr...more
FICTION
The Abstinence Teacher
by Tom Perrotta
Published: October 2007
Pages: 368
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Links:
Author website
Post Road interview
Fresh Air interview
“The Abstinence Teacher accomplishes what many politicians wish they could achieve: it's lively and entertaining while also remaining impartial.”
Review
The master of suburban angst strikes again, and this time not even Jesus is safe. Tom Perrotta, author and adapter-to-film of Election and Little Children , often begins his novels in places where the streets and the houses all look the same and the people enjoy comfortable lives — until something breaks through the white picket fences to make them fight for a cause greater than themselves. In The Abstinence Teacher, it's not a high-school class election or the neighborhood pedophile tearing a community apart, but something much murkier and even more contr...more
