Joe College
By Tom Perrotta
(St. Martin's Griffin, Paperback, 9780312361785, 320pp.)
Publication Date: September 19, 2006
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Paperback
Categories: General
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Populated by a vividly drawn cast of characters -- Yale students and lunch truck drivers alike -- JOE COLLEGE evokes two radically different worlds through Tom Perrotta's distinctive combination of humor, sweetness, and telling detail. JOE COLLEGE is a serious comic novel about love, higher education, and food service, a uniquely American story about the mistakes we sometimes make and the illusions we have to shed on the way to finding our place in the world.
Tom Perrotta is also the author of LITTLE CHILDREN, ELECTION, THE WISHBONES and BAD HAIRCUT. He lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.
"An overwhelmingly pleasing book"--The New York Times "An absorbing, fleshed-out portrait of an American male edging toward adulthood by crossing seemingly rigid social boundaries."--The New York Times Book Review
"Companionable and humane, lighthearted and surprisingly touching."--Newsweek
“Perrotta transforms eighties nostalgia into art.”—Entertainment Weekly
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