![]() ![]() ![]() I thought, I'm such a skeptic that even if it did happen, I would resist the implications of it, and I also thought that three years later, everyone would have forgotten about it. But I kept thinking: What if it did happen?. to laugh it off - it's sort of a funny idea, people just floating away. "I spent a lot of time thinking about contemporary Christianity, and obviously the rapture kept coming up," he says. Perrotta tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that he got the idea for the novel while traveling around the country, doing speaking engagements for The Abstinence Teacher, his novel about small-town culture wars. The date passed by with no apparent rapture, and Camping became the butt of many late-night talk show jokes.īut what if the rapture did actually occur? That's the premise of Tom Perrotta's latest novel, The Leftovers, which examines the aftermath of an unexplained rapturelike event in which millions of people around the globe inexplicably disappear into thin air. Tom Perrotta is the author of several novels, including Election and Little Children.Įarlier this year, California-based preacher Harold Camping announced that the beginning of the end of the world would take place on May 21, 2011. ![]()
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