by Tom Perrotta
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Tom Perrotta made his literary debut with his short story collection Bad Haircut, earning critical praise and comparisons to Salinger, Carver, and Roth by taking readers to New Jersey in the 1970s as a boy named Buddy struggles with the timeless mysteries of sex, death, parents-and of course, bad haircuts.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 You will love it even if you're not from the 70s..., 2009-12-14
I throroughly enjoyed this book. I loved a collection of short stories with the same narrator which was a breath of fresh air. While I love short stories, it can become a bit tedious because with each one you have to get to know new characters and so forth. Reading this got me thinking about the various experience I had growing up during my teen years in the 90s. I was not alive in the 70s, but the various situations and emotions I can relate to as can any other generation.
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Young and alive in the 70's in New Jersey, 2009-07-12
Bad Haircut is a collection of short stories told in the first person by a kid Buddy who grows up from Cub Scout, in the first story, to college student in the last. It reminded me some of The Wanderers, by Richard Price, a book I much enjoyed and admired.
Overall the book has a light, humorous tone though it has some disturbing moments. The author has an appealing, unpretentious prose style - easy to read, good ear for vernacular, nicely noted details. I lived in that time and it all rings true.
The stories are each little slices of life. Some of the later ones are about girls Buddy is involved with. I'd say my favorite stories were Forgiveness and The Jane Pasco Fan Club.
This was my first experience with Perrotta. I think I'm going to check out some of his other stuff now. It was that good.
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 Like a good lunch, 2009-04-10
Perrotta proves again that his writing is likeable if not very impactful in this book of loosely connected stories about growing up in the 1970s. While I didn't enjoy Bad Haircut as much as Perrotta's later novels, I still devoured it more or less in one sitting and then tossed it aside. It was like a good lunch: I enjoyed the experience but wouldn't recall it much by the next day.
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 All the little children, can you see them?, 2008-09-16
This was Tom Perrotta's first book. It is a collection of short stories. The stories are all about (and told by) a character named Buddy, who seems to be based on Perrotta himself. There are ten stories about Buddy, each occuring in a different year of his life, the first being in 1979 and the last being in 1989. The stories are funny and enjoyable, but not quite as good as his later work. If you liked his other books, you'll probably enjoy this one.
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(three and half stars) slices of growing up, 2008-06-04
Centered around a boy named Buddy growing up in the 70's in a middle class suburban town in New Jersey, "Bad Haircut" is probably a semi-autobiographical portrayal of memories that have stayed with Tom Perrotta, a very talented author indeed. The stories are often poignant, though most are open ended and don't have that "aha!" moment that short story writers often strive for. We learn quite a bit about Buddy and his family through these vignettes, which are only loosely connected. Don't expect, though, to be blown away, as you may have been with Perrotta's "Little Children;" but there's certainly something very enjoyable about this collection of subtle stories giving us slices of Buddy's childhood. For me, it ended all too quickly -- I would have liked to follow Buddy at least through college and perhaps through his early post-graduate days (as a struggling young writer, no doubt).
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