Tom Perrotta (10 kníh)
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Tom Perrotta Bad Haircut ENThe literary debut from the author of Little Children, Election and The Abstinence Teacher. Tom Perrotta's first novel takes readers to semi-fictional 'Cranwood', in small-town New Jersey. Set between fall 1969 and the summer of 1980, 'Bad Haircut' consists of ten tales; reflecting a coming-of-age in the 'kitsch' era of platforms and disco. The novel charts the struggles of a boy called Buddy with the timeless…
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Tom Perrotta Election ENTracy Flick wants to be President of Winwood High. She's one of those ambitious girls who finds time to do it all: edit the yearbook, star in the musical, sleep with her English teacher. But another teacher, staunch idealist Jim McAllister (aka Mr. M.), thinks the students deserve better. So he persuades Paul Warren a well-liked, good-hearted jock to throw in his hat. But that puts Paul's sister, Tammy, in a snit.…
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Tom Perrotta Election ENTracy Flick wants to be president of Winwood High. She’s one of those ambitious girls who finds time to do it all: edit the yearbook, star in the school musical, sleep with her English teacher. Staunch idealist, Jim McAllister (aka ‘Mr M’) thinks the students deserve better...
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Tom Perrotta Little Children ENTodd, the handsome stay-at-home-dad - the one all the playground Moms admire in a silent look-but-do-not-touch fashion. He's trying (for his wife's sake) to pass his bar exam although he blatantly doesn't want to be a lawyer, and in a desperate attempt to reclaim his youth joins a midnight touch-football team - and starts a passionate affair with Sarah. Sarah is a lapsed feminist who isn't quite sure how she ended…
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Tom Perrotta Little Children ENTom Perrotta’s thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There’s Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed “The Prom King” by the moms at the playground, and his wife Kathy, a documentary filmmaker envious of the connection Todd has forged with their toddler son. And there’s Sarah, a lapsed feminist surprised to find she’s become a typical wife in a traditional marriage, and her…
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Tom Perrotta Pozůstalí CZPozůstalí Toma Perrotty přinášejí myšlenkově pronikavý pohled na společnost zasaženou nevysvětlitelnou událostí. Poté co 2 % celosvětové populace náhle beze stopy zmizí, se zbytek lidstva zoufale snaží pochopit, co se stalo, a hlavně, co bude následovat. Perrotta ve svém bestsellerovém románu, jejž vysoce ohodnotil mino jiné i Stephen King, originálně rozpracoval představu biblického Nanebevzetí, během nějž jsou v…
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Tom Perrotta The Abstinence Teacher ENMidway through Tom Perrotta's sixth novel, The Abstinence Teacher, Ruth Ramsey, a divorced mother of two, reluctantly puts on lipstick and jeans to meet with Tim Mason, her youngest daughter's soccer coach and a recently remarried father of one, and even more reluctantly admits to herself that she secretly wishes she were a heroine in one of those corny `opposites attract` narratives that were so appealing to…
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Tom Perrotta The Leftovers ENFrom the author of Little Children and now a major new TV series, The Leftovers asks what if one day some of us simply vanished? And some were left behind? Following the sudden disappearance of thousands of citizens, Kevin Garvey, Mapleton's new mayor, wants to bring a sense of hope to his traumatised community, but his family has fallen apart in the wake of disaster. Kevin's wife has joined a homegrown cult, and…
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Tom Perrotta The Leftvers ENWhat if – one day, without explanation – some of us simply vanished? Would we carry on, and act as we did before our world turned upside down? That’s what the bewildered citizens of Mapleton have to figure out. Kevin Garvey, Mapleton’s new mayor, wants to bring a sense of hope to this traumatised community, but his family has fallen apart in the wake of disaster. His wife has joined a homegrown cult, and his son is…
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Tom Perrotta The Wishbones ENEverything is going pretty well for Dave Raymond. He's 31, but he still feels young. He's playing guitar with the Wishbones, a New Jersey wedding band, and while it isn't exactly the Big Time, it is music. He has a roof over his head well, it`s his parents` roof, but they don't hassle him much. Life isn't perfect. But it isn't bad. Not bad at all. But then he has to blow it all by proposing to his girlfriend... One…
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