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Tom Perrotta
Born
in Newark, New Jersey, The United States
August 13, 1961
Website
Genre
Influences
Raymond Carver, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Tobias
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The Leftovers
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published
2011
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85 editions
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Little Children
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published
2004
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60 editions
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Mrs. Fletcher
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published
2017
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11 editions
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The Abstinence Teacher
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published
2007
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45 editions
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Tracy Flick Can't Win
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published
2022
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16 editions
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Election
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published
1998
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27 editions
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Nine Inches
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published
2013
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14 editions
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Joe College
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published
2000
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15 editions
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The Wishbones
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published
1997
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20 editions
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The Best American Short Stories 2012
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published
2012
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7 editions
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“Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
― Election
― Election
“He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”
― Joe College
― Joe College
“After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.”
― Little Children
― Little Children
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People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey
Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey
Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta
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| Listomania: Tom Perrotta's Top Ten | 1 | 123 | Aug 14, 2009 08:27AM | |
| The Book Challenge: Jennifer's 2009 Book Challenge | 19 | 483 | Sep 01, 2009 03:42PM | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Revzonian's Reading Challenge 2009 | 31 | 245 | Sep 07, 2009 07:27AM | |
| College Students! : WINNERS for November! | 32 | 153 | Oct 22, 2009 06:03PM | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Abbey's 50 Books for 2010 | 1 | 40 | Jan 09, 2010 04:12PM | |
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