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Author: Tom Perrotta

Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780749082482
Pages: 288
Rights: UK & Comm ex. Canada, US
Pub. Date: 4th June 2006

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Price: £6.99

Format: Paperback

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Beneath the placid surface of suburbia, the adults are kicking their toys out of their pram...

In this brilliantly perceptive novel, a group of parents, trapped in middle-class stability, deal with marriage, kids and their suburban life in very different ways...

There's Mary Ann, a super-mom who is already preparing her 4-year-old son for Harvard and has her life scheduled to a T, including sex with her husband - every Tuesday at 9pm sharp.  Then there's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home-dad - the one the other mothers 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 up being a traditional wife. She's the kind of mother who (shock horror) is capable of forgetting her daughter's snack, and in a moment's rebellion dares to kiss Todd in front of the mother's group.  Then there's Larry, an ex-policeman whose wife has left him and who obsessively targets the local paedophile to vent his life`s frustration. And let's not forget Sarah's husband, Richard, a successful businessman who develops an obsession for internet exhibitionist Slutty Kay, and consequently spends more time inhaling her mail-ordered panties than with his own wife and daughter.

A unique mix of the comical, and the touchingly humane bestselling novel.

‘Tom Perrotta…is like an American Nick Hornby: humane, light-hearted and surprisingly touching’Newsweek

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