- Married people, Fiction, Parent and child, Suburban life
Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch.
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Contemporary, classical in form and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Tom Perrotta
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 355
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Griffin, St. Martin's Paperbacks, St. Martin's Press
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780312990329
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First sentence
“THE YOUNG MOTHERS WERE TELLING EACH OTHER HOW TIRED they were.”
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