by Tom Perrotta
Acknowledgements
I'd like to thank John Talbot and Maria Massie for their help in making this book a reality, I'm grateful to Mike Perrotta and all the members of R.S.V.P., one of New Jersey's finest wedding bands, for letting me watch them in action. Special thanks to Mary and Nina for too many gifts to enumerate.
About the Author
TOM PERROTTA is the author of five other works of fiction: The Abstinence Teacher, Election, 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.
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From the reviews of The Wishbones:
‘Perrotta's prose is dignified and earnest, relying on carefully crafted details about Dave, his fellow band members, and the tangential characters on the Jersey wedding-band circuit to tell a wistfully humorous story … Perrotta's characters have an innocence and sturdiness that invite the reader to care wholeheartedly about them’
Time Out
‘Perrotta lays out Dave's difficulties with an expert sense of pacing and revelatory incident, combining moments of unassuming poignancy with an offhand humour that occasionally rises to the hilarious’
New York Times
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The Abstinence Teacher
Little Children
Joe College
Election
Bad Haircut
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First published in the USA in hardback by G. P. Putnam's Sons (1997).
First published in paperback in the USA by Berkley (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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