Author: Tom Perrotta
Genre: A&B Classics
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780749011246
Rights: UK & Comm ex. Can/ANZ
Pub. Date: 22nd July 2013
A unique mix of the comical, and the touchingly humane, this brilliantly perceptive novel sees a group of parents, trapped in middle-class stability, dealing with marriage, kids and their suburban life in very different ways..
'Wickedly perceptive...think Desperate Housewives meets Madame Bovary'Mail on Sunday
'A wicked joy'Daily Express
'Seriously Good'Harpers and Queen
'Excellent'Closer Magazine
'Witty and downright devilish'Time Out
‘Tom Perrotta…is like an American Nick Hornby: humane, light-hearted and surprisingly touching’Newsweek
‘The cast is so real that book groups will have a blast comparing people they know to the ones in the book. Suburban comedies don’t come any sharper’People Magazine
‘Little Children is a greatly auspicious and instructive encounter with the dread world of maturity. Darkly comic, with a mischievous eye for absurd and intimate details’Washington Post
‘Tom Perrotta has to be one of our true genius satirists… Little Children is a great book’Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River
‘Anyone who watches Desperate Housewives but wishes for a little more intellectual intrigue should lap it up, and those lucky enough to be familiar with Perotta should be impressed with the way he’s moved on and grown up alongside his Generation X-ers’The Times
'Extraordinary novel…a sterling comic contribution’New York Times
'Perrotta could almost be the physical embodiment of a Springsteen hero, who wants to both belong and not belong at the same time.'The Guardian
Boomsday
Christopher Buckley