Tom Perrotta

Tom Perrotta's latest novel, The Abstinence Teacher, is out this month from St. Martin's Press.From a 2004 interview with Perrotta conducted by Barnes & Noble:What was the book that most influenced your life or your career as a writer?I read The Great Gatsby in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love. I've reread