The abstinence teacher
By: Tom Perrotta
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780007261000
Subjects: High school teachers; Fiction; Sexual abstinence; Christianity; Religious life and customs; Evangelists; Interpersonal relations; Soccer coaches; Culture conflict; Sex educators; Suburban life; Divorced parents
Description: Ruth Ramsey is the human sexuality teacher at the local high school. Her daughter's soccer coach, Tom Mason, is a former bad boy who hit rock bottom and was saved. Now a member of the local evangelical Christian church that sees Ruth Ramsey and her sex ed classes as a target, the two become bitter adversaries. But when controversy on the soccer field forces them to actually talk to each other, an uneasy friendship begins to develop.