![]() Tom Perrotta: When I was a kid, I got a lot of my information from Reader’s Digest-and I first saw Our Town referred to in a copy my parents had lying around. Tom Perrota’s work has been on screen before his novels Election and Little Children both became feature films. To illustrate, Perrotta turned to Thornton Wilder’s classic play Our Town, which takes great pains to build the quotidian social fabric that it ultimately intends to tear apart. ![]() As he explained in our conversation for this series, writers need quiet, daily moments to open the door to greater themes and feelings. The book’s catalyzing event, which will come to dramatic life in the show co-created by Damon Lindelof of Lost fame, is part catastrophe, part cosmic mystery: Without fanfare or explanation, two percent of the world’s population suddenly vanishes.īut despite the dramatic premise, The Leftovers is really about the everyday experience of grief -and for Perrotta, literary power lies not with sound and fury but in small details. ![]() The Leftovers, the acclaimed Tom Perrotta novel whose 10-part TV adaptation will premiere on HBO this Sunday, begins with the extraordinary. ![]()
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