Authors: Tom Perrotta
AcknowledgementsI'd like to thanks Janice Shapiro, Albert Berger, and
Ron Yerxa for their enthusiasm and support
.Thanks, too, to Maria Massieand Christine Pepe, and, as always,
to Mary, Nina, and Luke
.
About the AuthorTOM PERROTTA
is the author of five other works of fiction:
The Abstinence Teacher, The Wishbones, Bad Haircut
, and the
New York Times
bestselling
Joe College
and
Little Children. Election
was made into the acclaimed 1999 movie directed by Alexander Payne and starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon.
Little Children
was released as an Oscar-nominated movie directed by Todd Field and starring Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connelly in 2006. Perrotta lives outside of Boston with his family.Visit www.AuthorTracker.com for exclusive information on your favorite HarperCollins author.
‘
Election
provides those gratifyingly exact and telling portraits of the kids themselves. Solid plotting guarantees that the reader really does want to learn who wins when the ballots are finally counted’New York Times
‘A neatly written, nimble-witted novel. A good-natured, John Irvingesque portrait of the contemporary world … Seamless storytelling’
Washington Post
The Abstinence Teacher
Little Children
Joe College
The Wishbones
Bad Haircut
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This Harper Perennial edition published 2009
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First published in the USA in hardback by G. P. Putnam's Sons (1998).
First published in paperback in the USA by Berkley (1998).
Copyright © Tom Perrotta 1998
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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