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The Abstinence Teacher.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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Perrotta has made himself a specialist in suburban angst, peopling his novels with lonely daydreamers who are sexually dissatisfied and certain that their best days are over. In his latest, a high-school sex-ed teacher runs afoul of the local Evangelicals by informing her students that "some people enjoy" oral sex. After grudgingly accepting a new, chastity-based curriculum, she's aghast to discover that her daughter's handsome ...

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