Tracy Flick es la esforzada subdirectora de un instituto público en una tranquila y pequeña ciudad de Nueva Jersey. A sus cuarenta años, lleva una vida apacible y, aunque su ambición es menor que en su juventud, cuando surge...
Eve Fletcher es una mujer divorciada de poco más de cuarenta años. Vive en una tranquila y apacible ciudad de Nueva Jersey. Su hijo se. acaba de ir de casa para empezar la universidad y piensa que quizá. ha llegado el momento de aprov...
¿Qué pasaría si tu mujer, tu marido o tu hijo desaparecieran delante de ti? Bajo el prisma de una sola familia, Perrotta muestra cómo un fenómeno sin precedentes sacude a la ciudad de Mapleton. Una inexplicable desaparic...
Milions de persones han desaparegut de la Terra de cop i volta. Sense avís. Sense motiu. Alguns dels que queden hi busquen explicacions científiques, però els més fanàtics creuen que es tracta d'un esdeveniment religi&oa...
A stunning short story collection from the New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Little Children, featuring stories focusing on Tom Perrotta's familiar suburban nuclear families
Bad Haircut explores the themes that have fascinated Perrotta throughout his career: suburban rituals and mores; sports and religion; the cheerful cheesiness of American consumer life; public tests of manliness; and the moral dilemmas faced by ordinary...
What if - one day, without explanation - some of us simply vanished? Would we carry on, and act as we did before our world turned upside down? That's what the bewildered citizens of Mapleton have to figure out.
The New York Times bestseller now in paperbackâA thought-provoking engrossing novel about love, connection, and loss from the author of The Abstinence Teacher and Little Children
For many college students, Spring Break means fun and sun in Florida. For Danny, a Yale junior, it means two weeks behind the wheel of the Roach Coach, his father's lunch truck, which plies the parking lots of office parks in central New Jersey.
Following in the footsteps of the late great Lester Bangs -- the most revered and irreverent of rock ânâ roll critics -- twenty-four celebrated writers have penned stories inspired by great songs. Just as Bangs cast...