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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425163146
ISBN: 0425163148
Label: Berkley Trade
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: April 01, 1998
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Studio: Berkley Trade
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Tom Perrotta's first novel, The Wishbones, is all about that much-maligned class of 30-ish men who still live at home with their parents, guys who make furtive love to their girlfriends--if they have them at all--in the basement rec room or the back seat of a car. But Dave Raymond, the protagonist of The Wishbones, doesn't waste his time on Star Trek reruns or computer games; he spends his weekends playing in a wedding band called The Wishbones, using the rapidly receding dream of rock stardom as an excuse to put off growing up. The sudden death of a fellow musician sends Dave into something of a tailspin, however, and in a moment of weakness, he proposes to his longtime girlfriend, Julie. The engagement has hardly been announced when Dave meets Gretchen, a bridesmaid at one of the weddings at which The Wishbones play, and before long he's having serious doubts about his own marital plans.
Everybody knows someone like Dave, but a real-life puer aeternus is rarely as entertaining as Perrotta's fictional one. Perrotta wisely surrounds his sad-sack protagonist with an array of entertaining supporting characters, from a joint-smoking priest to one of Dave's band-mates whose life work is a musical based on Kennedy's assassination. By the time The Wishbones winds down to its well-deserved end, readers will be wishing for a second novel from Tom Perrotta soon.
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Everything is going pretty well for Dave Raymond. He's 31, but he still feels young. He's playing guitar with the Wishbones, a New Jersey wedding band, and while it isn't exactly the Big Time, it is music. He has a roof over his head...well, it's his parents' roof, but they don't hassle him much. Life isn't perfect. But it isn't bad. Not bad at all. But then he has to blow it all by proposing to his girlfriend.
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I'm a fan of Tom Perotta. I especially admire his ability to get ahead of social trends in his books. He seems to sense the "next big thing" and he's there, several steps ahead.
In this amusing but not overly demanding novel, Perotta gives us the archetypal character of Dave, a boy-man of 31 still struggling to grow up. Since this book came out in 1997, that character has become the stock-in-trade of Judd Apatow and his ilk. But Perotta was there first.
Dave is a rock star-wannabe who ... Read More
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Reading "The Wishbones" by Tom Perrotta makes it easy to see the early evolvement of his man-boy characters that the author has perfected over the past decade. At the center of this novel is Dave Raymond, a 32 year-old wedding band guitar player who is seemingly content with his go-nowhere life until he mistakenly proposes to his girlfried. What Dave experiences afterwards is a journey of self-discovery among a landscape populated by music and an interesting cast of characters.
Dave ... Read More
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Though not as good as subsequent novels "Little Children" and "Election," Tom Perrotta's first, "The Wishbones," already laid the groundwork as to why he has so many admirers: quirky characters in uncomfortable scenarios narrated in a snappy way. Here, the protaganist (Dave Raymond) is what one might consider a bit of a loser -- at age 31, he still lives with his parents, and although obviously intelligent, hasn't done much with his life. He messengers during the day, plays guitar at night for a ... Read More
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THE WISHBONES
Meet The Wishbones, a wedding band. These guys have been together for a long time, playing all sorts of events calling for a live band. The story's main character is Dave, a 31 year old semi-loser -- he still lives with his parents, he has been dating the same girl for 15 years, he has a so-so job as a courier, and works with the band evenings and weekends. He is a guitar-man and he loves his band, The Wishbones.
The author of LITTLE CHILDREN does not disappoint. ... Read More
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I loved this book. In fact, I loved it so much I went out and bought four copies of it for my guitar playing friends. The Wishbones never stops satisfying, and almost every page is filled with scenes I had experienced or people I knew somewhere along the line. Perotta writes about "boomer" themes almost as well as Stephen King, though not anywhere near as wordy. He creates very likable and believeable characters; people any hard rockin', guitar swingin' dude born in the USA after WWII would recognize. ... Read More
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