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| Title | : | The Abstinence Teacher |
| Author | : | Tom Perrotta |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
| Published | : | October 16th 2007 by Random House Canada (first published 2007) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Religion. Contemporary. Adult Fiction. Novels. Adult. Literary Fiction |
Tom Perrotta
Hardcover | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 3.25 | 16353 Users | 2379 Reviews
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Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise kids. It's got the proverbial good schools, solid values and a healthy real estate market. It's the kind of place where parents are involved in their children's lives, where no opportunity for enrichment goes unexplored.Ruth Ramsey is the human sexuality teacher at the local high school. She believes that "pleasure is good, shame is bad, and knowledge is power." Ruth's younger daughter's soccer coach is Tim Mason, a former stoner and rocker whose response to hitting rock bottom was to reach out and be saved. Tim belongs to The Tabernacle, an evangelical Christian church that doesn't approve of Ruth's style of teaching. And Ruth in turn doesn't applaud The Tabernacle's mission to take its message outside its doors. Adversaries in a small-town culture war, Ruth and Tim instinctively mistrust each other. But when a controversy on the soccer field pushes the two of them to actually talk to each other, they are forced to take each other at something other than face value.
The Abstinence Teacher exposes the powerful emotions that run beneath the surface of modern American family life and explores the complex spiritual and sexual lives of ordinary people. Elegantly written, it is characterized by the distinctive mix of satire and compassion that have animated Perrotta's previous novels.
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| Original Title: | The Abstinence Teacher |
| ISBN: | 0307356361 (ISBN13: 9780307356369) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Ruth Ramsey, Tim Mason, Pastor Dennis |
| Setting: | New Jersey(United States) |
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Ratings: 3.25 From 16353 Users | 2379 ReviewsColumn About Books The Abstinence Teacher
I really enjoy Tom Perrotta's writing style, and this book is no exception. His prose is smooth and easy, the kind of writing that pulls you into the story and makes you forget you're reading a book. I would compare reading Perrotta to watching an engaging movie. He's just an excellent storyteller.That said, I have some issues with his latest, The Abstinence Teacher. The book is about a woman named Ruth, a sex ed teacher in Suburbville, USA, who sparks a controversy by responding to a questionThis book was a recommendation for our book club and I have to say it is one of the only books for that group that I think is poorly written. What I was told I would be reading is a funny book about a clash between the health teacher at a school and the local fundamentalist Christian group. I was expecting a collision of ideas, morality, education, parents v. teachers, community standards. What I got was something else completely. It started off with the health teacher and it seemed to be
This book was very difficult for me to read. It was a very mature book and I'm glad that I finished it. It was hard for me to find the main parts of the story because there was three parts of the story. It is about these two people. One is named Ruth and the other one is named Tim. they are both adults and Ruth has been through a terrible divorce and her kids are breaking apart from her. Tim is a recovering drug and alcohol addict and he is recovering with God's help. He is a soccer coach and is
The story unfolds...It sounds like such a cliche but that truly is the best way to describe this absorbing read. Perrota does an excellent job of reeling the reader in, slowly disclosing background information and details about the main characters, all the while allowing the story to be told. Perrota never hints at his own personal position on the controversial issues raised by this novel (i.e. educating high school students about abstinence, public prayer, Christianity.) Both of the main
I only finished this book because I had already listened to 4.5 of the 9 discs when its potential finally crashed and burned. This novel should be called The Convert or The Convert Awaiting His Chance to Backslide rather than The Abstinence Teacher since the title The Abstinence Teacher misleadingly suggests that the implementation of an "abstinence only" sex education program, its effect on the students, and the battle about the programs in community would be the subject. In interviews the
The Abstinence Teacher Gets an A in My Grade BookTom Perrotta and I have two things in common: New Jersey roots and novels about sex education; his latest work, The Abstinence Teacher is the only other novel, besides my own, The Sex Ed Chronicles, that I have read which covers a subject that is still considered taboo in some social circles.The Abstinence Teacher has two main characters: Ruth Ramsey, a divorcee and high school sex educator who makes one inappropriate comment too many, drawing the
When it comes to my sex life, theres a lot my parents dont need to know. They dont need to know that I was deathly afraid of sex until I was almost 18 not because of those abstinence only education documentaries that made sex seem like a death warrant but because it was me giving something of myself to someone, letting them have a power over me that I wasnt entirely comfortable with. They dont need to know who I lost my virginity to, or what my current boyfriend and I do behind closed
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