{"product_id":"books-nine-inches-by-tom-perrotta","title":"Nine Inches","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning short story collection from\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ethe\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ebestselling author of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Leftovers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eand\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLittle Children,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003efeaturing stories focusing on Tom Perrotta's familiar suburban nuclear families\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNine Inches\u003c\/i\u003e, Tom Perrotta's first true collection, features ten stories--some sharp and funny, some mordant and surprising, and a few intense and disturbing.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Whether he's dropping into the lives of two teachers--and their love lost and found--in \"Nine Inches\", documenting the unraveling of a dad at a Little League game in \"The Smile on Happy Chang's Face\", or gently marking the points of connection between an old woman and a benched high school football player in \"Senior Season\", Perrotta writes with a sure sense of his characters and their secret longings.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNine Inches\u003c\/i\u003e contains an elegant collection of short fiction: stories that are as assured in their depictions of characters young and old, established and unsure, as any written today.\u003c\/p\u003e ished and unsure, as any written today.ished and unsure, as any written today.ished and unsure, as any written today.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53510854246673,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781250054975.jpg?v=1778181003","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-nine-inches-by-tom-perrotta","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}