num_pages: 246
description: Nine Inches Tom Perrotta's first true collection features ten storiessome sharp and funny some mordant and surprising and a few intense and disturbing. Whether he's dropping into the lives of two teachersand their love lost and foundin 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.Nine Inches 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.
language: English
title: Nine Inches
publisher: St. Martin's Press