Tom Perrotta likes to write about trouble in paradise, the snake in the grass which will expel you from Eden if you let it. The paradise of his new novel, The Abstinence Teacher, like that of his last, Little Children, is American suburbia, geographically placeless but instantly recognizable and lovingly characterized. Those who live there are wealthy, tolerant of others suff (...)
December 21, 2007
Books
Suburban Paradise Lost
The Abstinence TeacherTom PerrottaSt. Martin’s Press, $24.95, 368 pp.
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