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A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011A USA Today 10 Books We Loved Reading in 2011 TitleOne 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 o...

What if the Rapture happened? The bewildered citizens of Mapleton have lost over 100 people to this OSudden Departure.O In this story, Perotta illuminates a familiar America made strange by grief and apocalyptic anxiety.

The acclaimed "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Little Children" returns with a startling, thought-provoking audio book that, through the prism of a single family, illuminates a familiar America made strange by grief and apocalyptic anxiety.

Tom Perrotta's new novel is a departure for him in theme, though not in sense of place or characters. In this new novel the bestselling author of Little Children and The Abstinence Teacher poses a question--how would average men and women react if permanently separated from their loved ones. Through the prism of a single family, Perrotta illuminates a familiar America made strange by grief and apocalyptic anxiety. The LEFTOVERS is a powerful a...

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The new collection from the New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Little Children, featuring stories focusing on Tom Perrotta's familiar suburban nuclear familiesNine Inches, Tom Perrotta's first true collection, features ten stories-some sharp and funny, some mordant and surprising, and a few intense and disturbing. Whether he's dropping into the lives of two teachers-and their love lost and found-in "Nine Inches", documentin...

FICTION / Literary

The literary debut from the author of 'Little Children', 'Election' and 'The Abstinence Teacher'.

In one of the funniest, most insightful, most surprisingly touching novels of recent times, Perrotta "captures the texture of high-school life in a refreshingly unromantic manner" ("Time Out New York"). Soon to be a major motion picture from MTV Films and Paramount, starring Matthew Broderick.

Il giorno del Rapimento predetto dalla Bibbia è arrivato e voi siete tra quelli che sono rimasti sulla Terra. Cosa fareste? E se invece non si fosse trattato del Rapimento biblico, ma di qualcosa di più oscuro, di una raffica di sparizioni misteriose, apparentemente casuali, che in un momento devastano il mondo, dividendo la storia in un Prima e un Dopo, senza risparmiare nessuno? Come fareste a ricostruire le vostre vite dopo un evento così s...

La storia inizia con una lezione di educazione sessuale in un liceo. Ruth, l'insegnante, risponde in classe a un insidioso intervento di un'allieva. "Il sesso orale è disgustoso" dice la ragazza. "Tanto vale baciare con la lingua la tazza del bagno. Si possono prendere un sacco di malattie schifose, giusto?". Ruth risponde: "Beh, da quel che ne so io sul sesso orale, c'è a chi piace". Scoppia lo scandalo. I genitori ultrareligiosi della ragazz...

A sharp, funny and beautifully observed satire about the disturbing influence of the Christian right from one of Americäs most cherished authors.

Populated by a vividly drawn cast of characters -- Yale students and lunch truck drivers alike -- JOE COLLEGE evokes two radically different worlds through Tom Perrotta's distinctive combination of humor, sweetness, and telling detail. JOE COLLEGE is a serious comic novel about love, higher education, and food service, a uniquely American story about the mistakes we sometimes make and the illusions we have to shed on the way to finding our pla...

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Elegantly and simply written, "The Abstinence Teacher" illuminates the powerful emotions that run beneath the placid surface of modern family life, and explores the complicated spiritual and sexual lives of ordinary people.

La educación sexual en la escuela en un ambiente cargado de puritanismo es la original propuesta de esta nueva novela de Tom Perrotta, uno de los más interesantes novelistas estadounidenses de la actualidad. Definido como «un Chejov americano» por The New York Times Book Review y aclamado por su maestría para retratar con inteligencia y sensibilidad las aflicciones de la vida contemporánea, Perrotta tiene ya dos novelas trasladadas al cine con...