The Abstinence Teacher de Tom Perrotta

The Abstinence Teacher

Tom Perrotta

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2008

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"Perrotta is that rare combination: a satirist with heart .Those who haven't curled up on the couch with this writer's books are missing a very great pleasure." "Seattle"" Times"

Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise children: it's got good schools, solid values and a healthy real estate market. Parents in the town are involved in their children's lives, and often in other children's lives, too coaching sports, driving carpool, focusing on enriching experiences. Ruth Ramsey is the high school human sexuality teacher whose openness is not appreciated by all her students or their parents. Her daughter's soccer coach is Tim Mason, a former stoner and rocker whose response to hitting rock bottom was to reach out and be saved. Tim's introduction of Christianity on the playing field horrifies Ruth, while his evangelical church sees a useful target in the loose-lipped sex ed teacher. But when these two adversaries in a small-town culture war actually talk to each other, a surprising friendship begins to develop.

"Nobody renders the world of soccer moms and sprinklers and SUVs like Perrotta. He's the Steinbeck of suburbia." "Time"

"Tom Perrotta is a truth-telling, unshowy chronicler of modern-day America." "The New" "York Times Book Review" (in a front-page review)

"The Abstinence Teacher" illuminates the powerful emotions that run beneath the placid surface of modern American family life, and explores the complicated spiritual and sexual lives of ordinary people. It is elegantly and simply written, characterized by the distinctive mix of satire and compassion that has become Perrotta's trademark."

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Praise for Tom Perrotta and "Little Children":
A "New York Times,"" Los Angeles Times," "USA Today," "San Francisco Chronicle," "Boston Globe" and "BookSense" bestseller:
"Extraordinary . . . at once suspenseful, ruefully funny, and ultimately generous."
--"The New York Times Book Review
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"Perrotta is that rare writer equally gifted at drawing people's emotional maps . . . and creating sidesplitting scenes. Suburban comedies don't come any sharper."
--"People"
"A virtuoso set of overlapping character studies."
--"The Washington Post"
"A precise and witty evocation of the sweet, mind-numbing routines and everyday marital conflicts . . . an effervescent new work."
--"Entertainment Weekly"
"Perrotta wisely refuses to condescend to the world he satirizes, and his masterful perspective provides the reader with a breezy omniscience over the characters' failures in life. The book is disarmingly funny but rueful . . . a brave novel."
--"Esquire
,,"."has the same unputdownable quality as Little Children."
--"New York Magazine
""Sex education, soccer and Christian fundamentalism make strange bedfellows in Perrotta's shrewd yet compassionate fifth novel...Ruefully humorous and tenderly understanding of human folly: the most mature, accomplished work yet from this deservedly bestselling author."
--"Kirkus Reviews"
"Tom Perrotta knows his suburbia, and in The Abstinence Teacher he carves out an even larger chunk of his distinct terrain...The book is rife with Perrotta's subtle and satiric humor."
--"Publishers Weekly
""Perrotta deals with timely issues by having characters from different camps forced to confront one another. Whatresults from these civilized exchanges, which feel so human in their complexity and confusion, is a more personal, inside view of how such tensions play out."
--"Library Journal" "From the Hardcover edition."

"He's the Steinbeck of suburbia."--"Time """ "A finely wrought novel."--Jerry Eberle, "Booklist""" "Perrotta is that rare combination: a satirist with heart....Those who haven't curled up on the couch with this writer's books are missing a very great pleasure."--Seattle Times "Tom Perrotta is a truth-telling, unshowy chronicler of modern-day America."--"The New York Times Book Review""" "Ruefully humorous and tenderly understanding of human folly: the most mature, accomplished work yet from this deservedly bestselling author."--"Kirkus Reviews "(Starred Review) "Rife with Perrotta's subtle and satiric humor."--"Publishers Weekly"

Notă biografică

Tom Perrotta is the author of five previous works of fiction: "Bad Haircut," "The Wishbones," "Election," and the "New York Times" bestsellers "Joe"" College" and "Little Children." "Election" was made into the acclaimed movie directed by Alexander Payne and starring Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick. Perrotta was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay for the movie version of "Little Children," which was directed by Todd Field and starred Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connelly. Perrotta lives with his family outside Boston, Massachusetts.

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Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise children: it has the proverbial good schools, solid values and a healthy real estate market. It's the kind of place where parents are involved in their children's lives-coaching sports, driving carpool, taking an interest in their development at every level. The Abstinence Teacher focuses on two divorced parents who each play key roles in the lives of other people's children: Ruth Ramsey is the human sexuality teacher at the local high school who believes that pleasure is good, shame is bad, and knowledge is power. Her younger daughter's soccer coach is Tim Mason, a former stoner and rocker whose response to hitting rock bottom was to reach out and be saved. Tim is a member of The Tabernacle, the local evangelical Christian church that wants to take its message outside the doors of its own sanctuary, and sees a useful target in Ruth Ramsey. Adversaries in a small-town culture war, Ruth and Tim instinctively distrust one another. But when a controversy on the playing field forces the two of them to actually talk to each other, an uneasy friendship begins to develop. The Abstinence Teacher illuminates the powerful emotions that run beneath the placid surface of modern family life, and explores the complicated spiritual and sexual lives of ordinary people. Elegantly and simply written, the book has the distinctive mix of satire and compassion readers have responded to in Perrotta's other novels. Ruth arrived late and mildly hungover for her daughter's soccer game on Saturday morning. Smiling queasily, she made her way down the sideline, nodding hello to the more punctual parents, many of whom she hadn't seen in quite a while. Afew of the spectators were sitting in collapsible chairs, but most were on their feet, chatting in sociable clumps as they sipped from state-of-the-art stainless steel travel mugs, giving the whole scene the air of an outdoor cocktail party. As usual, Ruth's ex-husband, Frank, had removed himself from the talkers, his attention focused solely on the game. He stood like the baseball player he'd once been - knees bent, hands resting on his thighs - observing the action with an expression of intense absorption that Ruth might have mistaken for disgust if she hadn't known him so well. Morning, she said, tugging gently on his sleeve. How we doing? Tied at two, he muttered, shooting her a reproachful glance. First half's almost over. Maggie thought you forgot. I overslept. Ever hear of an alarm clock? Didn't go off, she explained, leaving out the part about how she''unplugged the thing in a fit of three-in-the-morning insomniac misery. Because, really, what was worse than lying wide awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another? --from The Abstinence Teacher From the Hardcover edition.

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