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Tom Perrotta

Teoksen Little Children tekijä

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Tom Perrotta is a 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. His fiction book, The Leftovers, made it to the New York Times bestseller list in 2014. (Bowker Author näytä lisää Biography) näytä vähemmän
Image credit: Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas

Tekijän teokset

Little Children (2004) 3,489 kappaletta
The Leftovers (2011) 2,275 kappaletta
The Abstinence Teacher (2007) 2,199 kappaletta
Election (1998) 941 kappaletta
Mrs. Fletcher (2017) 770 kappaletta
Joe College (2000) 691 kappaletta
The Wishbones (1997) 469 kappaletta
The Best American Short Stories 2012 (2012) — Toimittaja — 358 kappaletta
Tracy Flick Can't Win (2022) 317 kappaletta
Nine Inches: Stories (2013) 305 kappaletta
Little Children [2006 film] (2007) — Screenwriter — 64 kappaletta
Me and Carlos (2020) 21 kappaletta
Senior Season (2011) 17 kappaletta
Grade My Teacher - story (2013) 10 kappaletta

Associated Works

The Best American Short Stories 2005 (2005) — Avustaja — 693 kappaletta
The Thrill Club (1994) — Ghostwriter — 234 kappaletta
Lit Riffs (2004) — Avustaja — 167 kappaletta
What's Your Exit? A Literary Detour Through New Jersey (2010) — Avustaja — 9 kappaletta
Life As a Loser (2005) — Esipuhe — 9 kappaletta

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i completely understand the section of people who hate open endings of this magnitude but i just eat them up every time. i LOVE and live for the gaps authors leave for me to sit around and think about what they could be filled with. i love the acceptance that i'll never know for sure. i read this after watching the show, so it was fascinating to see the changes the showrunners made from the original story and especially what they ended up leaving behind altogether (justice for jill's shaved head and the GR members at the outpost who fell in love). meg and laurie's storyline had so much life here, i got the time with jill and tom that i desperately wanted, and everyone was just so real. they're messy and fucked up and make the wrong decisions and act out in pain/anger and there aren't resolutions and they don't have time to fix mistakes and they're just dragging themselves through every day full of grief and confusion and i just love them for it!!!!!!!!!!… (lisätietoja)
 
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bisexuality | 183 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 3, 2024 |
I mostly enjoyed this story about a middle aged single Mom dealing with her empty nest. Like other Tom Perotta books it has a dark, depressing vibe to it although ultimately it's not a super dark book even though it tackles the dark underbelly of loneliness.

It spends a lot of time exploring sexual relationships, gender, sexual fantasy and experimentation and how that differs among people of different generations. That was all interesting to me but might put off some people if they aren't expecting a lot of discussion about porn in their casual reading.

Probably closer to a 4 so really 3.5
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hmonkeyreads | 57 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 25, 2024 |
I've had this book on the shelf for a long time and only Started to read it when I needed help to make sense of the HBO show that is based on the novel and it was excellent in that regard.

This is a slow moving book with a melancholy feel but by the end it surprised me with it's slightly upbeat and hopeful finish.

Not one that I would recommend to others because it's such an unsettling and mostly unpleasant story but in the end I'm glad I read it myself.
 
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hmonkeyreads | 183 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 25, 2024 |
While you do not have to had read Election to enjoy this, it is basically Election but with a grown Tracy Flick, but that does not make it any less enjoyable.
 
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bookwyrmm | 18 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 19, 2024 |

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Teokset
20
Also by
7
Jäseniä
12,307
Suosituimmuussija
#1,903
Arvio (tähdet)
½ 3.5
Kirja-arvosteluja
567
ISBN:t
180
Kielet
14
Kuinka monen suosikki
38

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