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Mar 1, 2004 · 32 books2,673 followers. Tom Perrotta is the bestselling author of nine works of fiction, including Election and Little Children, both of which were made into Oscar-nominated films, and The Leftovers, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed, Peabody Award-winning HBO series. His work has been translated into a multitude of languages.
Tom Perrotta has 32 books on Goodreads with 350876 ratings. Tom Perrotta’s most popular book is The Scarlet Letter.
Sep 27, 2022 · Tom Perrotta: Well, I had the very unusual experience, as a writer, of creating a character who really took on a life of her own. Tracy existed on the page, and then Reese Witherspoon played her ...
May 31, 2022 · Scribner. $27. Tom Perrotta’s characters commit routine moral crimes: They betray spouses, treat friends shabbily, send inappropriate text messages, disrespect their parents, scheme to unseat ...
May 7, 2019 · Tom Perrotta on the origins of Election, Tracy Flick's legacy, and adapting his own work. By. Tyler Aquilina. Tyler Aquilina. Tyler Aquilina is a former digital writer at Entertainment Weekly. He ...
Tom Perrotta is from Garwood, New Jersey, a place where he spent most of his childhood. He is the son of an Albanian-Italian immigrant that worked as a secretary and an Italian immigrant father that worked for the postal services. His mother would later quit her job as secretary and stay at home to look after Perrotta and his brother and sister.
They all raise their kids in the kind of quiet suburb where nothing ever seems to happen—until one eventful summer, when a convicted child molester moves back to town, and two parents begin an affair that goes further than either of them could ever have imagined. Now a major motion picture.
