The Leftovers - Softcover

Tom Perrotta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007453116 ISBN 13: 9780007453115

Publisher: Fourth Estate, 2012

Synopsis

From the author of `Little Children' and now a major new TV series, `The Leftovers' asks what if one day some of us simply vanished? And some were left behind? Following the sudden disappearance of thousands of citizens, Kevin Garvey, Mapleton's new mayor, wants to bring a sense of hope to his traumatised community, but his family has fallen apart in the wake of disaster. Kevin's wife has joined a homegrown cult, and his son is a disciple of the prophet Holy Wayne. Only Jill, Kevin's daughter, remains, and she's no longer the sweet student she once was. Written with a rare ability to illuminate our everyday struggles, `The Leftovers' is a startling novel about love, connection and loss.

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Review:

Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2011: Author Tom Perrotta is a master at exposing the quiet desperation behind America’s suburban sheen. In The Leftovers he explores what would happen if The Rapture actually took place and millions of people just disappeared from the earth. How would normal people respond? Perrotta’s characters show a variety of coping techniques, including indifference, avoidance, depression, freaking out, and the joining of cults. Despite the exceptional circumstances, it’s really not unlike how people respond to more minor incidents in their lives (excepting cults). The result is a novel that’s a slow burn yet strangely compelling, one that leaves the reader pondering the story long after it’s over. In vivid and occasionally satiric prose, he takes a bizarre and abnormal event--the Rapture--and imagines how normal people would deal with being left behind. --Chris Schluep

About the Author:

Tom Perrotta is the author of several works of fiction, including `Little Children', `Joe College' and `Election'. He lives outside Boston, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0007453116
• ISBN 13: 9780007453115
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 355