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Availability:In StockContributor:Tom PerrottaPublish date:2012-12-11Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martin's GriffinISBN-13:9781250010032ISBN-10:1250010039UPC:9781250010032Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Short Stories (single author), World LiteratureBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC6EJZAZYS

New York Times bestselling author Tom Perrotta's first book is "more powerful than any coming-of-age novel" --The Washington Post

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 people, parents, and teenagers alike. Perrotta has continued to explore these subjects in novels from Election to The Abstinence Teacher.

The ten rich stories here are linked by a single protagonist: Buddy, an adolescent suburban New Jersey boy who is truly seeing his world for the first time and already finding it both mysterious and lacking. Whether he's out on a Boy Scout trip with his mother and discovering that his mother actually knows--and has a history with--the man inside the battered foam hot dog costume in "The Weiner Man", feeling the first glimmer that sex might actually be possible for him in "Thirteen", or finding himself swept along on a prank gone very wrong in "Snowman," Buddy is both a recognizable American boy and a trademark Perrotta hero. Bad Haircut is a moving, spare book from a writer who, even this early in his career, had an assured sense of the complexity of his characters' emotional landscapes.
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martin's GriffinISBN-13:9781250010032ISBN-10:1250010039UPC:9781250010032Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Short Stories (single author), World LiteratureBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC6EJZAZYS
Tom Perrotta is the author of several works of fiction: Bad Haircut, The Wishbones, Election, and the New York Times bestselling Joe College and Little Children. Election and Little Children were made into critically acclaimed movies. The Leftovers and Mrs. Fletcher were both adapted into HBO series. He lives outside of Boston.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

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