Time calls Tom Perrotta the “Steinbeck of suburbia.” As his novels delve into ordinary lives, his “domestic realism laced with biting satire, is a delight… Writing with clear, subtle prose and winning emotional directness, Perrotta has been chronicling the American heart and soul, its follies and foibles, for almost a decade, without misstep,” says The Globe and Mail. The bestselling author studied writing under Thomas Berger and Tobias Wolff before teaching creative writing at Yale and Harvard. His novels include The Abstinence Teacher, Little Children, Joe College, Election, The Wishbones, Bad Haircut and, most recently, The Leftovers. The New York Times Book Review calls him “An American Chekhov whose characters, even at their most ridiculous, seem blessed and ennobled by a luminous human aura.” The Leftovers is set after the rapture in a small New Jersey suburb as families left behind are muddling through their lives. Stephen King calls it “the best Twilight Zone episode you never saw… Perrotta has delivered a troubling disquisition on how ordinary people react to extraordinary and inexplicable events, the power of family to hurt and to heal, and the unobtrusive ease with which faith can slide into fanaticism.” Read Less
Time calls Tom Perrotta the “Steinbeck of suburbia.” As his novels delve into ordinary lives, his “domestic realism laced with biting satire, is a delight… Writing with clear, subtle prose and winning emotional directness, Perrotta has been chronicling the American heart and soul, its follies and foibles, for almost a decade, without misstep,” says The Globe and Mail. The bestselling author studied writing under Thomas... Read More
