![]() ![]() Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for best screenplay. ![]() Winslet and Jennifer Connelly in 2006, and for which Perrotta received Was released as a movie directed by Todd Field and starring Kate Election was made into the acclaimed 1999 movie directed by Alexander Payne and starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon. Leavened with humor and tinged with creepiness, this insightful novel draws us into some very dark corners of the human psyche. Tom Perrotta is the author of six previous work of fiction: The Abstinence Teacher, Bad Haircut, The Wishbones, Election, and the New York Times bestselling Joe College and Little Children. "bad" characters, but recognizing all as merely human-ordinary peopleĭealing with an extraordinary situation." It is mainly empathic, never drawing a distinction between "good" and Though the tone is more comic than tragic, Something crucial about themselves, as radical upheaval generates a With those who have changed their lives radically or discovered Startling (certainly for the characters involved). ![]() Most ambitious book to date.The premise is as simple as it is ![]()
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