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Original Title:	Little Children
ISBN:	0312315732 (ISBN13: 9780312315733)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Richard Papen, Sarah Parker, Kathy, Todd

Little Children Paperback | Pages: 355 pages

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Title	:	Little Children
Author	:	Tom Perrotta
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 355 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2005 by St. Martin's Griffin (first published March 1st 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Adult Fiction

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Tom Perrotta's thirtyish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms at the playground, and his wife, Kathy, a documentary filmmaker envious of the connection Todd has forged with their toddler son. And there's Sarah, a lapsed feminist surprised to find she's become a typical wife in a traditional marriage, and her husband, Richard, who is becoming more and more involved with an internet fantasy life than with his own wife and child.
And then there's Mary Ann, who has life all figured out, down to a scheduled roll in the hay with her husband every Tuesday at nine P.M.
They all raise their kids in the kind of quiet suburb where nothing ever seems to happen - until one eventful summer, when a convicted child molester moves back to town, and two parents begin an affair that goes further than either of them could ever have imagined.

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This biting satire of suburban domestic malaise delivers a cast of characters for whom you cant help but sympathize despite how generally unlikeable they are.Sarah and Todd develop a connection at the town pool where they each day their toddlers every day. Bored and unfulfilled by their own marriages, they quickly escalate into a secret affair, each seeking in the other something to fill that void.Meanwhile, Sarahs husband nurtures a perverted new fetish and Todds wife dutifully goes to work

I don't usually read a book after seeing the movie, but there were a few memorable lines in the movie that I was hoping originated in the book. An interesting story about the choices you make in your daily life, combating the terror of normality that hits once you have become an adult, and the consequences of both."What was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any

After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that theyd actually made some sort of choice. Tom Perrotta, Little ChildrenWhat happens when your bored and disillusioned? When the flatness of the days mold themselves into your soul and you are not SAD just indifferent?And you think: is this all there is?I have

I should be working right now.But I just finished this novel during my lunch and I can't get it out of my mind. The ending, really.At first, I thought there was something wrong with the Kindle edition. I was approaching the end and when I hit the next page (which turned out to be the last page), my Kindle gave an error that it could not open the page. I went back and forth, and then the page opened, but the sentence I wason was misaligned to another on the new page. So I decreased the font so I

Wow. At over 300 pages, I enjoyed this book so much it seemed more like a short story. It reads like a steamy soap opera with lots of dark undertones and shrewd observations about parenthood and marriage; and characters who are flawed but mostly likable. Even the villain of the piece, a convicted child molester, is portrayed with a degree of sympathy. This man moves back to his mother's home after being released from prison, sending the small suburban town into panic and paranoia. His presence

A character study of regretful adults. All reverting back to childhood with their desires and deeds. What do you do when you are unhappy with the choices you have made up to this point in your life? You seek an escape. That is what this novel is about. One of my recurring complaints about books in general is product placement. Ignoring my anti-consumerist attitude this was a good read. The ending was perfect.

Perrotta has written a caustically funny satire of thirty-something suburban American life that we laugh aloud even as we see ourselves and our faults unerringly displayed. Even with his opening salvo--descriptions of the mothers at the playground discussing their children, other mothers children, their husbands, their sexual habits (or not)--one cannot help but think this is one author who listens and can make a joke of even the most painful circumstance. No matter how bad or boring things get,