Reading Group Gold Abstinence Teacher, (Paperback)

from novelcommentary

Enjoyable easy read where the characters, Ruth Ramsey and Tim Mason represent opposites on the issue of appropriate sex education. They also are attracted to each other. Ruth is divorced with two daughters and enjoys her very frank, honest role as the school's conveyer of sexual information. This...

from bachaney

I really enjoyed 'Little Children', so I was excited to read Tom Perrotta's new book 'The Abstinence Teacher'. I mostly enjoyed the book until the very end, when i felt like it was one chapter short of a full book. But all in all a decent read. It got a little too liberal preachy at times (and i'...

from kerinlo

I loved this book at the start and couldn't put it down. The characters are engaging and real. Perrotta develops his characters well and gives them real life flaws that help define them on the page. As I read, I felt the plot fell a little flat. I was interested in the main characters' struggles,...

from julie10reads

Tom Perrotta has been described as a skilfull commentator on suburbia. I find that demeaning, I don't know why. Let's say instead that Tom Perrotta understands the rough terrain of family relationships. The Abstinence Teacher features Ruth, an intelligent and liberal high school sex-ed teacher fo...

from karieh

"Until she'd seen those girls, those beautiful young athletes, sitting on the grass in the sunshine, being coerced by adults they trusted into praying to the God of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson and the Republican Party - the God of War and Abstinence and Shame and Willful Ignorance, the God Wh...