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Tom Perrotta
Born
in The United States
August 13, 1961
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Raymond Carver, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Tobias
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The Leftovers
— published 2011 — 51 editions |
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Little Children
— published 2004 — 44 editions |
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The Abstinence Teacher
— published 2007 — 31 editions |
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Election
— published 1998 — 10 editions |
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Joe College
— published 2000 — 9 editions |
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Nine Inches: Stories
— published 2013 — 10 editions |
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The Wishbones
— published 1997 — 7 editions |
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The Best American Short Stories 2012
by Tom Perrotta , Heidi Pitlor (Goodreads Author) , Alice Munro — published 2012 — 8 editions |
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Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies
— published 1994 — 5 editions |
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Senior Season
— published 2011 — 2 editions |
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“Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
― Tom Perrotta, Election
― Tom Perrotta, Election
“He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”
― Tom Perrotta, Joe College
― 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
― Tom Perrotta, Little Children
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| Listomania: Tom Perrotta's Top Ten | 1 | 88 | Aug 14, 2009 08:27AM | |
| The Book Challenge: Jennifer's 2009 Book Challenge | 19 | 463 | Sep 01, 2009 03:42PM | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Revzonian's Reading Challenge 2009 | 31 | 222 | Sep 07, 2009 07:27AM | |
| College Students! : WINNERS for November! | 32 | 139 | Oct 22, 2009 06:03PM | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Crispy's 2009 books | 43 | 318 | Dec 16, 2009 08:52PM |
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