Election - Hardcover

Perrotta, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399143661 ISBN 13: 9780399143663

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 1998

Synopsis

Election

About this title

Review:

"[A] darkly comic and winning novel."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Funny, sad, realistic, irreverent, and very readable."--Library Journal

"Captures the texture of high-school life in a refreshing manner."--Time Out New York

"Exceedingly funny...sharp observation...a delight."--The Clevland Plain Dealer

"A neatly written, nimble-witted novel...a good-natured, John Irvingesque portrait of the contemporary world...seamless storytelling."--The Washington Post

"Perotta is that rare writer equally gifted at drawing people's emotional maps...and creating sidesplitting scenes."--People

"An American Chekhov."--The New York Times Book Review

About the Author:

Tom Perrotta is the author of The Leftovers, The Abstinence Teacher, Little Children, Election, and Nine Inches, among other works of fiction. 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 also serves as an executive producer for the HBO(R) series The Leftovers, based on his novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0399143661
• ISBN 13: 9780399143663
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200