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The leftovers by Tom Perrotta [Perrotta, Tom] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The leftovers about?
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon 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 SchluepReview"The Leftovers is, simply put, the best Twilight Zone episode you never saw."--Stephen King, New York Times Book Review"[Perrotta's] most mature, absorbing novel, one that confirms his development from a funnyman to a daring chronicler of our most profound anxieties
Who reads The leftovers?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Tom Perrotta [Perrotta, Tom]
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press;Macmillan; St. Martin's Griffin
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781427213228
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy
- Rating
- 3.38 / 5 (32,299 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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