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The Leftovers
- Author : Tom Perrotta
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2011-08-30
- Total pages :368
- ISBN : 9780307366931
Author by: Tom Perrotta Languange: en Publisher by: St. Martin's Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 92 Total Download: 785 File Size: 51,6 Mb Description: A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011 A USA Today 10 Books We Loved Reading in 2011 Title One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011 What if—whoosh, right now, with no. Election by tom perrotta pdf admin November 24, 2020 Leave a comment A far cry from Sweet Valley High, this wry, engaging story of a high-school election in a New Jersey town a couple of exits away from Glen Ridge is. Adaptation of Tom Perrotta's novel about life in a small town after many of its residents vanished in a Rapture-like event. The Leftovers brims with joy, hilarity, tenderness and hope.” ―Marie Claire “An engrossing read.” ―People “The Leftovers is sort of an 'Our Town' for End Times. Tom Perrotta, our Balzac of the burbs, has come up with a wild premise for his engaging, entertaining new novel. Suddenly, a huge number of people vanish from this earth.
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Summary : A startling, thought-provoking novel about love, connection and loss from the New York Times bestselling author of The Abstinence Teacher and Little Children. What if the Rapture happened and you got left behind? Or what if it wasn't the Rapture at all, but something murkier, a burst of mysterious, apparently random disappearances that shattered the world in a single moment, dividing history into Before and After, leaving no one unscathed? How would you rebuild your life in the wake of such a devastating event? This is the question confronting the bewildered citizens of Mapleton, a formerly comfortable suburban community that lost over a hundred people in the Sudden Departure. Kevin Garvey, the new mayor, wants to speed up the healing process, to bring a sense of renewed hope and purpose to his traumatized neighbours, even as his own family falls apart. His wife, Laurie, has left him to enlist in the Guilty Remnant, a homegrown cult whose members take a vow of silence but haunt the streets of town as 'living reminders' of God's judgment. His son, Tom, is gone, too, dropping out of college to follow a sketchy prophet by the name of Holy Wayne. Only Kevin's teenaged daughter, Jill, remains, and she's definitely not the sweet 'A' student she used to be. Kevin wants to help her, but he's distracted by his growing attraction to Nora Durst, a woman who lost her entire family in the tragedy, and is still reeling three years later, groping for a way to face the remainder of her life. Through the prism of a single family, Perrotta illuminates a familiar America made strange by grief and apocalyptic anxiety. The Leftovers is a powerful and deeply moving book about people struggling to hold on to a belief in their own futures. From the Hardcover edition.
The Leftovers
- Author : Tom Perrotta
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2012-01-05
- Total pages :368
- ISBN : 9780007453108
Summary : From the author of ‘Little Children’ and now a major new TV series, ‘The Leftovers’ asks what if one day some of us simply vanished? And some were left behind?
The Leftovers
- Author : Tom Perrotta
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2011-08-30
- Total pages :368
- ISBN : 9781429989138
Summary : A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011 A USA Today 10 Books We Loved Reading in 2011 Title One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011 What if—whoosh, right now, with no explanation—a number of us simply vanished? Would some of us collapse? Would others of us go on, one foot in front of the other, as we did before the world turned upside down? That's what the bewildered citizens of Mapleton, who lost many of their neighbors, friends and lovers in the event known as the Sudden Departure, have to figure out. Because nothing has been the same since it happened—not marriages, not friendships, not even the relationships between parents and children. Kevin Garvey, Mapleton's new mayor, wants to speed up the healing process, to bring a sense of renewed hope and purpose to his traumatized community. Kevin's own family has fallen apart in the wake of the disaster: his wife, Laurie, has left to join the Guilty Remnant, a homegrown cult whose members take a vow of silence; his son, Tom, is gone, too, dropping out of college to follow a sketchy prophet named Holy Wayne. Only Kevin's teenaged daughter, Jill, remains, and she's definitely not the sweet 'A' student she used to be. Kevin wants to help her, but he's distracted by his growing relationship with Nora Durst, a woman who lost her entire family on October 14th and is still reeling from the tragedy, even as she struggles to move beyond it and make a new start. With heart, intelligence and a rare ability to illuminate the struggles inherent in ordinary lives, Tom Perrotta's The Leftovers is a startling, thought-provoking novel about love, connection and loss.
The Leftovers
- Author : L.M.Glenn
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2014-10-26
- Total pages :248
- ISBN : 1230987654XX
Summary : ‘The Leftovers’ by Lisa Glenn is a mainstream romance novel with characters you can relate to. Destiny Glass, a stripper and single mother of a rebellious teen, Trinity, just happens to win the Florida Lottery. Winning the Lottery puts Destiny and Trinity in grave danger! As a class 4 hurricane crashes through Fort Hope Florida, life becomes a battle of survival. When FBI agent Colin Welsh shows up in Fort Hope to rescue this bad luck pair, Destiny believes things are getting better. She is wrong and sets out on an adventure in the mists of mass devastation. Determined to survive at all costs, Destiny forgets about the money and focuses on keeping her family alive. What will happen next? Will love prevail or will they lose everything they love?
The Leftovers
- Author : Tom Perrotta
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2011-08-30
- Total pages :368
- ISBN : 9780307366931
Summary : A startling, thought-provoking novel about love, connection and loss from the New York Times bestselling author of The Abstinence Teacher and Little Children. What if the Rapture happened and you got left behind? Or what if it wasn't the Rapture at all, but something murkier, a burst of mysterious, apparently random disappearances that shattered the world in a single moment, dividing history into Before and After, leaving no one unscathed? How would you rebuild your life in the wake of such a devastating event? This is the question confronting the bewildered citizens of Mapleton, a formerly comfortable suburban community that lost over a hundred people in the Sudden Departure. Kevin Garvey, the new mayor, wants to speed up the healing process, to bring a sense of renewed hope and purpose to his traumatized neighbours, even as his own family falls apart. His wife, Laurie, has left him to enlist in the Guilty Remnant, a homegrown cult whose members take a vow of silence but haunt the streets of town as 'living reminders' of God's judgment. His son, Tom, is gone, too, dropping out of college to follow a sketchy prophet by the name of Holy Wayne. Only Kevin's teenaged daughter, Jill, remains, and she's definitely not the sweet 'A' student she used to be. Kevin wants to help her, but he's distracted by his growing attraction to Nora Durst, a woman who lost her entire family in the tragedy, and is still reeling three years later, groping for a way to face the remainder of her life. Through the prism of a single family, Perrotta illuminates a familiar America made strange by grief and apocalyptic anxiety. The Leftovers is a powerful and deeply moving book about people struggling to hold on to a belief in their own futures. From the Hardcover edition.
Nif, Fin, and the Leftovers
- Author : Kamon,Joey Krit
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2011-12
- Total pages :36
- ISBN : 9781468509250
Summary : Nif, Fin and the Leftovers is a funny story that teaches children the way nature works. It's also a story of friendship, a story told from the small world of two lizards and the way they see us. Other books in the series Mindfulness for a Better World * Hooty and the Magic Power * Why Flatso Is So Flat * Justin and Britney * The WeeWee Dog (coming soon) * Mother Earth Looses Her Hat and Boots * Viktor and the Golden Shell (coming soon) Kamon works with a young Thai illustrator, Joey Krit. Together they create funny and colorful life lessons that are appetizing for the young reader's mind.
The Leftovers
- Author : Shaelyn Smith
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2018-04
- Total pages :232
- ISBN : 0914946005
Summary : Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. Art. 'This is a masterpiece of female/feminist empathy and genius. Art and nature, violence and literature, the impact of one's own life and the lives one seeks to feed us, to help us make a sort of sense of it all--THE LEFTOVERS is alive with fierce intelligence and deep emotion. It's a whole new kind of book, a brainy swirl of everything most sublime and most terrible about the world we inhabit.'--Michelle Tea 'Shaelyn Smith's THE LEFTOVERS extends the table of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party: it pronounces more of the names that should be pronounced; it draws in a wider range of practicing artists; it expands and complicates the context through which we read Chicago's feminist and recuperative gesture. But, most exciting of all, the book writes itself and the subject of its study into an ecological system, where many different voices rise out history, rise out of the contemporary moment, and put time and thought into a sustained rhythm. Through its unfolding THE LEFTOVERS learns how to care for each level in this living environment and leaves the reader with a feeling that she's learned something and planted something simultaneously.'--Renee Gladman 'In prose both journalistically obsessive and poetically seductive, Smith inscribes our invitation to the banquet of feminist art. What better to slow-look in this moment than an installation dedicated to expanding our understanding of what women have brought to the table. Reading Smith is like watching a skilled collagist reassemble the female body from disparate crime scene photos and defiant snapshots. I feel reanimated. THE LEFTOVERS is thrilling and necessary work.'--Karyna McGlynn
Love the Leftovers
- Author : Anonim
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2010
- Total pages :185
- ISBN : 9781741964455
Summary : This book saves you time, energy and fussing in the kitchen. Why cook a meal from scratch every night when you can simply convert leftovers from one delicious dinner into a glorious new lunch or dinner the next day? With these recipes you get two different dishes from one - minus the hard work.
The Thing About Leftovers
- Author : C.C. Payne
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2016-07-19
- Total pages :288
- ISBN : 9780698175754
GET BOOK HERESummary : “This may capture the experience of children of divorce better than any book out there and deserves readership beyond a middle-grade audience. A winner!”–San Francisco City Book Review C. C. Payne intertwines heartache with humor and hope in a novel about navigating divorce and blended families, following your passion, and celebrating who you are. Fizzy is a good Southern girl who just wants to be perfect. And win the Southern Living cook-off. The being perfect part is hard though, since her parents’ divorced and everything in her life has changed. Wary of her too-perfect stepmom and her mom’s neat-freak, dismissive boyfriend, she’s often angry or upset and feels like a guest in both homes. She tells herself to face facts: She’s a “leftover” kid from a marriage that her parents want to forget. But she has to keep all of that to herself, because a good Southern girl never yells, or throws fits, or says anything that might hurt other people’s feelings—instead she throws her shoulders back, says yes ma’am, and tries to do better. So Fizzy tries her best, but it’s hard to stay quiet when her family keeps getting more complicated. Fortunately, the Southern Living cook-off gives her a welcome distraction, as do her new friends Miyoko and Zach, who have parent issues of their own. With the poignancy and humor of Joan Bauer and Lynda Mullaly Hunt, this poignant story reminds readers that they have a right to a voice, that it is okay to say how you feel, and that some leftovers are absolutely delicious! From the Hardcover edition.
Lonely on the Mountain
- Author : Louis L'Amour
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2003-09-30
- Total pages :224
- ISBN : 0553899392
Summary : In Lonely on the Mountain, Louis L’Amour’s solitary wandering Sackett brothers make a stand together—to save one of their own. The rare letters Tell Sackett received always had trouble inside. And the terse note from his cousin Logan is no exception. Logan faces starvation or a hanging if Tell can’t drive a herd of cattle from Kansas to British Columbia before winter. To get to Logan, he must brave prairie fires, buffalo stampedes, and Sioux war parties. But worse trouble waits, for a mysterious enemy shadows Sackett’s every move across the Dakotas and the Canadian Rockies. Tell Sackett has never abandoned another Sackett in need. He will bring aid to Logan—or die trying. From the Paperback edition.
The Leftovers Club
- Author : Ray Wennerstroem
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2020-11-10
- Total pages :366
- ISBN : 0648979806
Summary : 'Creep, creep, creepin' creep, your soul he'll take, your soul he'll keep...' The Leftovers Club was founded in 1986 by eight kids who survived Tom Wickerman, the serial killer known as the Deighton Demon. The killer murdered six children before he died in a freak accident when his car swerved off the icy road and plunged into the freezing waters of Lake Serene. The small town of Deighton Pennsylvania could finally remove the shackles of tyranny imposed by the Demon's reign of terror, and slowly returned to its quiet self. But now, after 35 years, members of the Leftovers Club swear they have seen a man that looks just like the old serial killer that hunted them back in '86. The man must be an imposter, a lookalike. Even the likes of Tom Wickerman can't possibly return from beyond the grave to finish what he started 35 years ago... When the horrifying events of the past begin to repeat themselves, the Leftovers soon discover that their nightmares are about to become real and that true evil will not stay buried without a fight.
Leftovers
- Author : Heather Waldorf
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2009-04-01
- Total pages :208
- ISBN : 9781554696611
Summary : Fifteen-year-old Sarah Greene's father—chef by day, camera buff by night—choked to death on a piece of steak. It was the best day of Sarah's life. But a year later, Sarah still struggles with the legacy of her father's abuse. While other girls her age are determined to find boyfriends and part-time jobs and dresses for the prom, Sarah is on a search-and-destroy mission: to find the shoe box containing her father's collection of kiddy porn. After a brief skirmish with the law, Sarah is sentenced to do community service hours at Camp Dog Gone Fun, a summer program for shelter dogs. With the love of a big goofy dog named Judy, the friendship of Sullivan, a guy with problems of his own, and the support of a few good adults, Sarah begins to understand her past and believe in a brighter future.
Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower
- Author : Roseann Lake
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2018-02-13
- Total pages :288
- ISBN : 9780393254648
Summary : Factory Girls meets The Vagina Monologues in this fascinating narrative on China’s single women—and why they could be the source of its economic future. Forty years ago, China enacted the one-child policy, only recently relaxed. Among many other unintended consequences, it resulted in both an enormous gender imbalance—with a predicted twenty million more men than women of marriage age by 2020—and China’s first generations of only-daughters. Given the resources normally reserved for boys, these girls were pushed to study, excel in college, and succeed in careers, as if they were sons. Now living in an economic powerhouse, enough of these women have decided to postpone marriage—or not marry at all—to spawn a label: 'leftovers.' Unprecedentedly well-educated and goal-oriented, they struggle to find partners in a society where gender roles have not evolved as vigorously as society itself, and where new professional opportunities have made women less willing to compromise their careers or concede to marriage for the sake of being wed. Further complicating their search for a mate, the vast majority of China’s single men reside in and are tied to the rural areas where they were raised. This makes them geographically, economically, and educationally incompatible with city-dwelling “leftovers,” who also face difficulty in partnering with urban men, given the urban men’s general preference for more dutiful, domesticated wives. Part critique of China’s paternalistic ideals, part playful portrait of the romantic travails of China’s trailblazing women and their well-meaning parents who are anxious to see their daughters snuggled into traditional wedlock, Roseann Lake’s Leftover in China focuses on the lives of four individual women against a backdrop of colorful anecdotes, hundreds of interviews, and rigorous historical and demographic research to show how these 'leftovers' are the linchpin to China’s future.
Everything I Never Told You
- Author : Celeste Ng
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2014-06-26
- Total pages :320
- ISBN : 9781101634615
Summary : The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere. “A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense.' -O, the Oprah Magazine 'Explosive...Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family.' -Entertainment Weekly “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.
Sam the Cooking Guy: Recipes with Intentional Leftovers
- Author : Sam Zien
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2020-11-10
- Total pages :256
- ISBN : 9781682686034
Summary : 20 master recipes, more than 100 dishes—weeknight cooking has never been so exciting or so easy! Say goodbye to fourth-night-in-a-row meat loaf and identical containers of tragically “meal-prepped” chicken thighs. YouTube cooking sensation and restauranteur Sam the Cooking Guy is here to save us from mediocre leftovers. With 20 bulk-cooking master dishes, each featuring a main protein, with corresponding follow-up meals that all benefit from the work you’ve already done, Sam ensures that you’ll never be bored in the kitchen again! Sam’s recipes are simple and quick, but never tired. Your Mexican Meat Loaf from Sunday can shapeshift into Tuesday night’s Tacos or Thursday’s Sloppy Joes. Monday’s Roast Chicken becomes Wednesday’s Thai Chicken Curry or Friday’s Baked Taquitos. “Aw man, Beer-Braised Short Ribs again?” “Nah: Short Rib Egg Rolls!” Sam’s genuine and engaging personality, along with vibrant color photography, makes this book a lifesaver for busy folks who are looking for dinners that they can finally be excited about.
The One Year Devotions for Kids
- Author : Children's Bible Hour
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :1997-09
- Total pages :400
- ISBN : 0842346627
Summary : A collection of devotions for each day of the calendar year, including readings, illustrative stories, memory verses, and questions to internalize the messages.
American Ways, Third Edition
- Author : Gary Althen,Janet Bennett
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2011-03-04
- Total pages :312
- ISBN : 9781931930963
Summary : An exhaustive advice book for foreign visitors to the U.S. seeking to understand the motivations, attitudes, and actions of Americans.
The New Living & Learning in Home Economics 6
- Author : Anonim
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2020
- Total pages :229
- ISBN : 9712330702
Summary :
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Simple Home Repair
The Leftovers Tom Perrotta Pdf File Format
- Author : Judy Ostrow
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2007-09-04
- Total pages :336
- ISBN : 9781101043349
Summary : How many readers does it take to change a light bulb? Only one - if he or she is armed with this book! Rather than focus on the big projects that most homeowners would wisely leave to professionals, it concentrates on the common repairs that everyone encounters and anyone can do, with the right instruction, including repairing holes and dents in drywall; fixing popped nails in walls; checking and replacing fuses; unclogging drains; replacing light fixtures; fixing squeaky floors; repairing cracked tile and damaged carpet; replacing screens; screening gutters; and much more. ?Contains 250 to 300 step-by-step illustrations
The Leftovers, the Complete First Season [videorecording].
- Author : Anonim
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2020
- Total pages :229
- ISBN : OCLC:1057608120
Summary :
Leftovers
- Author : Laura Wiess
- Publisher :Unknown
- Release Date :2008-01-01
- Total pages :256
- ISBN : 9781416584759
Summary : A devastating novel of desperation and revenge from Laura Wiess. In this follow-up to her heartbreaking debut, Such a Pretty Girl, once again spins a shattering tale of the tragedies that befall young women who are considered society's Leftovers. Blair and Ardith are best friends who have committed an unforgivable act in the name of love and justice. But in order to understand what could drive two young women to such extreme measures, first you'll have to understand why. You'll have to listen as they describe parents who are alternately absent and smothering, classmates who mock and shun anyone different, and young men who are allowed to hurt and dominate without consequence. You will have to learn what it's like to be a teenage girl who locks her bedroom door at night, who has been written off by the adults around her as damaged goods. A girl who has no one to trust except the one person she's forbidden to see. You'll have to understand what it's really like to be forgotten and abandoned in America today. Are you ready?
Perrotta in 2007 | |
| Born | August 13, 1961 (age 59) Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter |
| Alma mater | Yale University Syracuse University |
| Period | 1988–present |
| Spouse | Mary Granfield |
| Website | |
| tomperrotta.net | |
Thomas R. 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, Academy Award-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. He is also known for his novel The Leftovers (2011), which has been adapted into a TV series on HBO.
Biography[edit]
Tom Perrotta was born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in Garwood, New Jersey,[1] where he spent his entire childhood, and was raised Roman Catholic.[2] His father was an Italian immigrant postal worker, whose parents emigrated from a village near Avellino, Campania, and his mother is an Albanian-Italian immigrant former secretary, who stayed home to raise him along with his older brother and younger sister.[1][2][3][4] Perrotta enjoyed reading authors such as O. Henry, J. R. R. Tolkien, and John Irving, and decided early in his life that he wanted to be a writer.[4] He was involved in his high school literary magazine, Pariah, for which he wrote several short stories.[5] Perrotta earned a B.A. in English from Yale University in 1983,[2] and then received an M.A. in English/Creative Writing from Syracuse University. While at Syracuse, Perrotta was a pupil of Tobias Wolff, whom Perrotta later praised for his 'comic writing and moral seriousness.'[6]
Perrotta married writer Mary Granfield in 1991,[7] and lives in the Boston suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts.[8][9]
Career[edit]
While teaching Creative Writing at Yale,[6] Perrotta completed three novels that he had trouble getting published. One was Election, the story of an intense high-school election inspired by the three-candidate 1992 United States presidential race, and another was Lucky Winners, which remains unpublished as of 2007 and which Perrotta described in 2004 as 'a pretty good novel about a family that falls apart after winning the lottery.'[10] In 1994, Perrotta published his first book, a collection of short stories titled Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies which The Washington Post called 'more powerful than any other coming-of-age novel.' The same year, Perrotta left Yale and began teaching expository writing at Harvard University.[2] In 1997 he published The Wishbones, his first novel, which Perrotta has said is basically 'about my high school years.'[11] The unpublished manuscript of Election was optioned as a screenplay in 1996 by director Alexander Payne, which then led to interest in publishing it as a book. It arrived in bookstores in March 1998, followed shortly by its film adaptation, which was released in April 1999 to critical acclaim.[6] The film, which starred Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon, helped popularize Perrotta as an author.
Following Election, Perrotta shifted his focus to an older—though just as troubled—cast of characters: first with 2000's Joe College, a comic journey into the dark side of higher education, love, and food service (which the author says is about his college years[11]); and then with 2004's Little Children, which explored the psychological and romantic depths beneath the surface of suburbia.
Little Children was Perrotta's 'breakout book,'[2] featured on numerous 'Best Books of 2004' lists—including those of The New York Times Book Review, Newsweek, National Public Radio, and People magazine—and garnering tremendous praise for Perrotta. The New York Times dubbed him 'an American Chekhov whose characters even at their most ridiculous seem blessed and ennobled by a luminous human aura,'[12] and People called him 'the rare writer equally gifted at drawing people's emotional maps...and creating sidesplitting scenes.'[13] For his part, Perrotta describes himself as a writer in the 'plain-language American tradition' of authors such as Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver.[4]
In 2006, Perrotta sold New Line Cinema an original screenplay he co-wrote with Frasier producer Rob Greenberg. Titled Barry and Stan Gone Wild, the screenplay is 'a shameless comedy [about] a 40-something dermatologist who goes on spring break.'[4] In January 2007, Perrotta was on the guest faculty for the third annual Writers in Paradise conference at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.[6] Perrotta was invited to teach at Eckerd by Dennis Lehane; the two writers had previously taught together at Stonecoast Writers Conference in Maine.[6]
Perrotta's novel, The Abstinence Teacher, was published on October 16, 2007. It is, according to the author, 'all about sex education and the culture wars. It's close in spirit to Little Children, I think.'[6] It was chosen by The New York Times as a 2007 Notable Book of the Year. As of October 2007, he was working on a film adaptation of the book with Little Miss Sunshine directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris.[5]
In 2010, 30,000 copies of his short story 'The Smile on Happy Chang's Face' were distributed as part of the Boston Book Festival's 'One City, One Story' project.
He has participated in turning his novel The Leftovers into an HBO TV series of the same name that began running in 2014 to critical acclaim for three seasons.
Bibliography[edit]
Novels[edit]
- The Wishbones (1997)
- Election (1998)
- Joe College (2000)
- Little Children (2004)
- The Abstinence Teacher (2007)
- The Leftovers (2011)[14][15][16]
- Mrs. Fletcher (2017)[17]
Ghostwritten novels[edit]
- The Thrill Club (early '90s) - R.L. Stine 'Fear Street' Series
Short stories[edit]
- 'The Weiner Man' (1988)
- 'Wild Kingdom' (1988)
- 'Forgiveness' (1989–1994)
- 'The Smile on Happy Chang's Face' (2004)
- 'Kiddie Pool' (2006)
- 'Me and Carlos' (2020)
Short story collections[edit]
- Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies (1994)
- Nine Inches (2013)
Essays[edit]
- 'The Squeamish American' (2007)
References[edit]
- ^ abCrace, John (February 21, 2009). 'A life in writing: Tom Perrotta'. The Guardian. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
He was born in 1961 in Garwood, where he spent his entire childhood. His father was an Italian postal worker, his mother an Albanian-Italian - 'that made her a second-class Italian' - secretary.
- ^ abcdeRich, Motoko. 'A Writer's Search for the Sex in Abstinence', The New York Times, 2007-10-14. Retrieved on 2007-10-20.
- ^Fiamma, Florinda (March 1, 2012). 'Tom Perrotta At the end of real life in the new novel of a cult author'. L'Uomo Vogue. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
My paternal grandparents were Italian immigrants from a village near Avellino. I grew up hearing them and my dad talk Italian. My mother’s relatives were Albanians, but they, too, lived in Italy before emigrating to the States.
- ^ abcdShanahan, Mark. 'Adaptation: Tom Perrotta is growing accustomed to seeing his books on the big screen', The Boston Globe, 2006-10-18. Retrieved on 2007-07-04.
- ^ abSchwartz, Missy. 'The Q&A: Tom Perrotta: His Novel Take on Suburban Life', Entertainment Weekly, 2007-10-15. Retrieved on 2007-10-20.
- ^ abcdefBancroft, Colette. 'From page to screen', St. Petersburg Times, 2007-01-14.
- ^'About Tom Perrotta'Archived 2016-06-24 at the Wayback Machine, Official Web Site. Retrieved on 2007-07-04.
- ^Alter, Alexandra (August 29, 2013). 'Tom Perrotta: Master of Suburban Noir'. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
Mr. Perrotta, who lives in Belmont, Mass.
- ^McClurg, Jocelyn (September 4, 2013). 'Cool fall author: Tom Perrotta'. USA Today. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
Perrotta, 52, who lives in the Boston suburb of Belmont, Mass.
- ^'Meet the Writers: Tom Perrotta'Archived 2007-06-10 at the Wayback Machine, Barnesandnoble.com, 2004.
- ^ abAlexander, Kevin. 'Suburban Observer' (interview with Perrotta), Writer's Digest, Dec. 2007.
- ^Blythe, Will. 'All the Children Are Above Average', The New York Times, 2004-03-14. Retrieved on 2007-07-04.
- ^'Books & Writing: Election'Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, Official Web Site. Retrieved on 2007-10-20.
- ^Jensen, Liz. (2011-08-30) THE LEFTOVERS by Tom Perrotta | Kirkus. Kirkusreviews.com. Retrieved on 2014-06-05.
- ^Damon Lindelof & Tom Perrotta's ‘Leftovers’ Gets Pilot Order At HBOArchived 2013-04-13 at the Wayback Machine. Deadline.com. Retrieved on 2014-06-05.
- ^King, Stephen (2011-08-25). 'The Leftovers - By Tom Perrotta - Book Review'. The New York Times.
- ^http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Mrs-Fletcher/Tom-Perrotta/9781501144028
External links[edit]
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- Tom Perrotta on IMDb
- Audio: Tom Perrotta in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion showThe Forum