Little Children -

Tom Perrotta

St. Martin's Griffin

2005

368 páginas

12h 16m

ISBN-10: 0312315732

Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms of the playground; Sarah, a lapsed feminist with a bisexual past, who seems to have stumbled into a traditional marriage; Richard, Sarah's husband, who has found himself more and more involved with a fantasy life on the internet than with the flesh and blood in his own house; and Mary Ann, who thinks she has it all figured out, down to scheduling a weekly roll in the hay with her husband, every Tuesday at 9pm.

They all raise their kids in the kind of sleepy American suburb where nothing ever seems to happen-at least until one eventful summer, when a convicted child molester moves back to town, and two restless parents begin an affair that goes further than either of them could have imagined. Unexpectedly suspenseful, but written with all the fluency and dark humor of Perrotta's previous novels, Little Children exposes the adult dramas unfolding amidst the swingsets and slides of an ordinary American playground.

Resenhas (3)

2.5 (Razoável)

no final, gostei da Mary Ann.

ai tinha tanto potencial na minha opinião. Para mim, essa ideia de uma cidade pequena com muitos personagens diferentes, é muito intrigante, só que eu achei que nunca chegou em lugar nenhum. Achei que os personagens foram bem contados, mas nunca teve nada muito entre eles que foi bem detalhado, tirando a Sarah e o Todd em que a relação deles foi muito interessante de ver, porque no final, eles não eram a pessoa um do outro pra sempre, mas sim para aquele verão.