The Abstinence Teacher
Perrotta, Tom
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BOOK SUMMARY
Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise children, but amid its good schools and healthy real estate market, a small-town culture war is brewing. The Abstinence Teacher focuses on two divorced parents who become adversaries in the mess: Ruth Ramsey
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Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise children, but amid its good schools and healthy real estate market, a small-town culture war is brewing. The Abstinence Teacher focuses on two divorced parents who become adversaries in the mess: 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 daughters soccer coach is Tim Mason, a former stoner and rocker whose response to hitting rock bottom was to reach out and be saved. 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. Elegantly written and with Perrottas distinctive mix of satire and compassion, 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.
AUTHOR BIO
Tom Perrotta is the author of five previous work of fiction: Bad Haircut, The Wishbones, Election, and the New York Times bestselling Joe College and Little Children. Election was made into the acclaimed 1999 movie directed by Alexander Payne and starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon. Little Children was released as a movie directed by Todd Field and starring Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connelly in 2006, and for which Perrotta received Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for best screenplay. He lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
BOOK REVIEWS
Praise for Little Children:
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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 peoples emotional maps...and creating sidesplitting scenes. Suburban comedies dont come any sharper. People
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A virtuoso set of overlapping character studies. The Washington Post
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A precise and witty evocation of the sweet, mind-numbing routines and everyday
marital conflicts...an effervescent new work. Entertainment Weekly
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ISBN: 1427201919
ISBN(13-digit): 9781427201911
Dewey Decimal: 813/.54
Library of Congress: bl2007021149
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
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