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Dooney & Bourke

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i just finished reading Little Children by Tom Perrotta and it was excellent. hilarious, great characters, quick read. i love his writing style (he also wrote Election, which is another great read). i highly recommend it - perfect for anyone who needs a book to read on a plane/train/bus ride over the holidays.


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dang it smash if i only would have seen this yesterday afternoon.  I was looking for a book for my trip.  I still might check this one out because what I ended up buying won't hold me for long.  Can you tell me a little more about it?

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it's basically about several couples living in suburbia with young children, how they interact with each other and profiles of their lives - it's very much a satirical look at the lives of young suburban parents. here is the description from amazon -


The characters in this intelligent, absorbing tale of suburban angst are constrained and defined by their relationship to children. There's Sarah, an erstwhile bisexual feminist who finds herself an unhappy mother and wife to a branding consultant addicted to Internet porn. There's Todd, a handsome ex-jock and stay-at-home dad known to neighborhood housewives as the Prom King, who finds in house-husbandry and reveries about his teenage glory days a comforting alternative to his wife's demands that he pass the bar and get on with a law career. There's Mary Ann, an uptight supermom who schedules sex with her husband every Tuesday at nine and already has her well-drilled four-year-old on the inside track to Harvard. And there's Ronnie, a pedophile whose return from prison throws the school district into an uproar, and his mother, May, who still harbors hopes that her son will turn out well after all. In the midst of this universe of mild to fulminating family dysfunction, Sarah and Todd drift into an affair that recaptures the passion of adolescence, that fleeting liminal period of freedom and possibility between the dutiful rigidities of childhood and parenthood. Perrotta (Election; Joe College; etc.) views his characters with a funny, acute and sympathetic eye, using the well-observed antics of preschoolers as a telling backdrop to their parents' botched transitions into adulthood. Once again, he proves himself an expert at exploring the roiling psychological depths beneath the placid surface of suburbia.



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