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Loading... Little Children: A Novelby Tom Perrotta
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is a very good novel. Perhaps Tom Perrotta's best to date. It's funny, erotic, troubling, exaggerated--though probably not. There are a lot of conflicting themes and situations. The ending wasn't great, but the very last sentence even saved that. ( )Engaging writing style, interesting plot, but the ending left me a little deflated. But I will read more of his novels because I like nothing more than finding a book that I simply can't put down. I found the the book an okay read but a little boring. I am going to watch the movie and see if that does it for me. Iistened to the audiobook instead of reading an actual book, maybe I cheated myself out of a good read, don't know. Perrotta is a master at creating very unlikeable characters who manage to elicit a fair amount of pity by the end. This suburban satire has that in spades. With his sly humour and compassion for his characters, Tom Perrotta rescues Little Children from drowning in the bitterness of its main subject matter: infidelity. The book is populated with people we should hate but don't - a wayward wife, a feckless husband, an internet porn addict who neglects his family. Even the character of Ronnie, a child molester, is afforded a slim measure of compassion. It's a mark of Perrotta's skill that he can bring this flawed bunch together and make Little Children an enjoyable, thought-provoking read. 0.122 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0312315716, Hardcover)Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms of the playground; Sarah, a lapsed feminist with a bisexual past, who seems to have stumbled into a traditional marriage; Richard, Sarah's husband, who has found himself more and more involved with a fantasy life on the internet than with the flesh and blood in his own house; and Mary Ann, who thinks she has it all figured out, down to scheduling a weekly roll in the hay with her husband, every Tuesday at 9pm. They all raise their kids in the kind of sleepy American suburb where nothing ever seems to happen-at least until one eventful summer, when a convicted child molester moves back to town, and two restless parents begin an affair that goes further than either of them could have imagined. Unexpectedly suspenseful, but written with all the fluency and dark humor of Perrotta's previous novels, Little Children exposes the adult dramas unfolding amidst the swingsets and slides of an ordinary American playground. (03/14/2004)(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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