But the he shows admirable zeal in prosecuting the case, and he comes as close as anybody to answering a not unimportant question: If the suburbs are the perfect community, the incarnation in grass and sunlight of American affluence, then how come life there is such hell?” - Time Magazine “Perrotta isn't breaking new ground when he reveals that American suburbs are petri dishes of ennui and alienation. It is also that rarity, a book that understands the mature wisdom of compromise without denying any of the accompanying melancholy.” -Charlie Taylor, Little Children is certainly Perrotta's most ambitious marks a leap for Perrotta, a suggestion that there may be bigger books inside him. “The voice is so key to what's so good about the book. Life is disappointing, sure, but a little bit of breezily sardonic humor goes a long way to ease the pain.” - USA Today Perrotta knows the white-picket fence dream is just that. At the same time he locates the humanity in even the most repugnant characters. He skewers-with a light touch-everything from book clubs to personal ads to mothers worried about getting their 4-year-olds into Harvard. Perrotta is an astute student of 21st-century suburban life. “ Little Children offers a generous serving of laugh-out-loud moments. Perrotta received Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for best screenplay for t he film adaptation of Little Children, which was directed by Todd Field and starred Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connelly. They all raise their kids in the kind of sleepy American suburb where nothing ever seems to happen-at least until one eventful summer, when a convicted child molester moves back to town, and two restless parents begin an affair that goes further than either of them could have imagined.
There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms of the playground Sarah, a lapsed feminist with a bisexual past, who seems to have stumbled into a traditional marriage Richard, Sarah's husband, who has found himself more and more involved with a fantasy life on the internet than with the flesh and blood in his own house and Mary Ann, who thinks she has it all figured out, down to scheduling a weekly roll in the hay with her husband, every Tuesday at 9pm. Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. Unexpectedly suspenseful, but written with all the fluency and dark humor of Tom Perrotta's The Wishbones and Joe College, Little Children exposes the adult dramas unfolding amidst the swingsets and slides of an ordinary American playground.
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