Tom Perrotta

Nine Inches: Stories Tom Perrotta Reprint edition

Nine Inches, Tom Perrotta?s first true collection, features ten stories?some sharp and funny, some mordant and surprising, and a few intense and disturbing.   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.

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.