Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Tom Perrotta on the Return of Tracy Flick
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Tracy Flick Can't Win
Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta is a satirical novel that catches up with the famously ambitious protagonist of Election as she navigates the complexities of middle age and professional stagnation.
Discussed“it's a standalone novel that has Tracy in it but at a very different time in her life like you could read Tracy flick can't win without having read election I think it'll be fine”
Where to get it
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Election
Election by Tom Perrotta is a satirical novel about high school politics, ambition, and the messy realities of adolescent and adult life.
Discussed“I was writing this book about veto and I kept wanting to write it the way that I had written a ction in these chapters with multiple narrators kind of oral history style you know as you say a polyphonic book where all these voices are chiming in to tell a story”
Where to get it
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The Edge of the Sea
Discussed“but I think you'd also have to mention Rachel Carson's the edge of the sea or in a more recent vein I would also add Robert McFarlan to the list”
Where to get it
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a classic British social realist novel written by Alan Sillitoe that captures the rebellious spirit of working-class life in post-war industrial England through its memorable protagonist, Arthur Seaton.
Recommended“one is the one I'm reading which is a novel called Saturday night and Sunday morning which was made into a movie starring Albert finny”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (8) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Election
“he's the author of many acclaimed novels including children which he adapted into an Oscar nominated screenplay the leftovers which later became a series for HBO and election which was turned into a movie starring a very memorable Reese Witherspoon as its lead character”
Passing Little children
“he's the author of many acclaimed novels including children which he adapted into an Oscar nominated screenplay the leftovers which later became a series for HBO and election which was turned into a movie starring a very memorable Reese Witherspoon as its lead character”
Passing The Leftovers
“he's the author of many acclaimed novels including children which he adapted into an Oscar nominated screenplay the leftovers which later became a series for HBO and election which was turned into a movie starring a very memorable Reese Witherspoon as its lead character”
Passing Tracy Flick Can't Win
“Tracy is back now in pda's new novel Tracy flick can't win and he joins me now to talk about it”
Passing Tracy Flick Can't Win
“the book again is Tracy flick can't win Tom PDA thanks so much for being here to talk about it”
Passing Lucky Jim
“what I love about that is that another contemporary of silos Kings Ley Amos has I think one of the great hangover scenes in Lucky Jim his novel”
“and I'm reading Saturday night and Sunday Morning by Alan Silo”
“and I'm reading Saturday night and Sunday Morning by Alan Silo”