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BELMONT, Mass. — The Rapture came at a good time for Tom Perrotta.In May, when the Christian radio host were preparing for the end of the world (now rescheduled), Mr. Perrotta was finishing up his new novel, “The Leftovers.” Its subject? A “Rapturelike phenomenon” in which millions of people vanish one day, leaving their friends and families unsure how to respond.It’s hardly typical fare for, a chronicler of suburban dysfunction best known for his 2004 novel, about a young mother’s infidelity and her neighborhood’s campaign against a pedophile. That book, his fifth, was turned into a and Mr. Perrotta received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay he wrote with the director Todd Field.
(The film version of his novel also received a best screenplay nomination, but Mr. Perrotta wasn’t involved.)Yet if the supernatural subject of “The Leftovers” is a departure for Mr. Perrotta, his treatment of it is not. The novel, which comes out on Tuesday and which Mr.
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Perrotta is adapting for an HBO series, concentrates on a suburban family and its struggles to cope after the Rapture leaves them untouched. It also advances the more complicated worldview that has characterized Mr. Perrotta’s work since “Little Children.”“I used to describe myself as a comic novelist,” he said recently, “but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years. I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.”. Though filled with the comic observations and straightforward language his readers now expect, “The Leftovers” also has what Mr.
Perrotta calls “a kind of existential quality about it.”He explained: “People are forced to ask, what does this mean? And if it’s meaningless and random and unknowable, then how are we supposed to live?”On the cover of The New York Times Book Review this week, as “a troubling disquisition on how ordinary people react to extraordinary and inexplicable events, the power of family to hurt and to heal, and the unobtrusive ease with which faith can slide into fanaticism.” Michiko Kakutani, the Times’s chief book critic, noted a disconnect between the novel’s “splashy, Hollywoodlike premise” and the author’s “talent for smaller-scale portraits.”For Mr. Perrotta, a cheerful, compact 50-year-old with no strong religious beliefs, the Rapture is less important from a theological perspective than from a novelistic one. He started thinking hard about the subject while researching evangelical culture for his 2007 novel, about a divorced sex-ed instructor who becomes entangled with an evanglical group.“I kept bumping up against the Rapture scenario,” he said this month at home in this Boston suburb, where he lives with his wife, Mary, and their teenage daughter and son. “And I got in that ‘What if?’ mode.
What if this happened, what would it be like three or four years in? I immediately thought, you know what, we probably would have forgotten about the Rapture. Because three or four years is an eternity in this culture.”. Perrotta’s quiet Massachusetts neighborhood is not unlike the quiet New Jersey neighborhoods in his books. Trees line the sidewalks, and girls in Belmont Marauders sweatshirts push bikes uphill past well-groomed lawns. On its Belmont calls itself “the Town of Homes,” the kind of quirky, humble detail that seems intended to appeal to a novelist of Mr.
Perrotta’s sensibilities — as does the fact that the journalist Sebastian Junger (who grew up in Belmont) suggesting that the Boston Strangler had struck here in the 1960s.After living for years here in a two-family house with no yard, Mr. Perrotta and his family moved four years ago — after the “Little Children” movie, with its Hollywood paycheck — into a spacious colonial-style home surrounded by perennial gardens.
Perrotta works in a small third-floor study that overlooks the rolling back lawn. A photo of his Little League team is framed on one wall, with a young Mr. Perrotta kneeling in the front row and his father behind him.That photo was taken in Garwood, N.J., where Mr. Perrotta grew up in a working-class family, his mother a secretary, and his father, who died a decade ago, a mail carrier.
Although a job teaching expository writing at Harvard brought Mr. Perrotta to Massachusetts in 1994, he remains a Jersey boy at heart, sprinkling his conversation with references to Bruce Springsteen and family vacations at the shore.
By the time Mr. Perrotta was in high school, he said, he had already dreamed of becoming a writer. “I really wanted to be a musician,” he said, laughing, “but it turned out I had no sense of time.”. After graduating from Yale with a degree in English, Mr.
Perrotta studied writing at Syracuse University, where he met his future wife (a journalism student) and formed a lasting friendship with his teacher Tobias Wolff. “I still remember Tom’s application story,” Mr. Wolff said in a recent e-mail, “and considering the many, many thousands of these I have read through the years, that’s saying something.”Mr. Wolff recalled that he and Mr. Perrotta used to exchange books, host movie nights and play softball together, and he quoted a line he’s never forgotten from Mr.
Perrotta’s first book, the 1994 collection “Bad Haircut.”“The narrator of a story sees his parents huddled together on the couch in front of the TV ‘like some two-headed monster of unhappiness,’ “ Mr. “I have never since sat down to watch, say, ‘The West Wing’ or ‘The Wire’ with my wife without worrying about how we look to our kids.”. The novelist who has known Mr. Perrotta since they both taught at Yale in the early 1990s, said that even as he was collecting rejection slips for an early novel that remains unpublished, his future was never in doubt.“A whole group of us used to hang out in the Anchor bar in New Haven after teaching and talk shop, and Tom would tell these great stories, and you just knew that he was going to be a big success,” she remembered. “When I called to congratulate him after ‘Little Children’ received a rave front-page review in The New York Times Book Review, his response was typical Tom: ‘Well, I guess there’s nowhere to go but down.’ ”Mr. Perrotta was raised Roman Catholic, but considers himself an agnostic. Still, with religious themes central to his last two novels, he acknowledged the topic has been on his mind since his father’s death.“I’ve been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade,” he said.
“When I started ‘The Abstinence Teacher,’ I wanted to write about the culture wars, but at some deep level I must also have wanted to immerse myself in religion and test my thinking against it.”But the Rapture in “The Leftovers,” he emphasized, isn’t meant to be the Christian Rapture at all — certainly not the one of the hugely popular “Left Behind” novels, which struck Mr. Perrotta as lacking nuance and grief.“It’s all very purposeful and clear, and that’s, to me, the function of apocalyptic theology,” he said. “But my book is like the agnostic’s apocalypse.”He added: “Even though I like using the word ‘Rapture’ because it makes it clear what happened, I also want to disconnect it from its religious context. I was interested in borrowing this scenario to think about collective trauma and grief and the speed of history.”.