Little Children (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Tom Perrotta
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 2004
- Setting: The fictional suburb of Bellington, near Boston
- Principal Characters: Sarah, Todd, Ronald McKorvey, May, Richard, Kathy, Larry Moon, Mary Ann
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Parents and children, Escapes, Middle classes, Alienation, Middle Passage, Adultery, Ambition, Identity, Suburban life, Massachusetts, 2000’s
- Locales: Boston, MA
As the author of Election (1998) and Joe College (2000), Tom Perrotta has distinguished himself as a literary satirist, offering savage examinations of American life. In Election, his focus was on high school overachievers and adolescent duplicity; in Joe College, he skewered the typical young-man-coming-of-age tale. In Little Children, Perrotta focuses his sights on suburban American home life.
Little Children particularly examines the lives of young parents who are finally and irreversibly entrenched in the day-to-day tedium of...
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