{"product_id":"nine-inches-stories","title":"Nine Inches: Stories","description":"Used paperback in Good condition. \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\u003eWhether 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","brand":"Perrotta, Tom","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":53450418618651,"sku":"mon0000797451","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/1464683482633.jpg?v=1786999119","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/nine-inches-stories","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}