Full name: Nine Inches: Stories

Author: Tom Perrotta Year: 2013 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Short Stories Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781250054975

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. Similar books: A Better Angel by Chris Adrian Jigs & Reels by Joanne Harris Touchy Subjects by Emma Donoghue Back in the World by Tobias Wolff In the Bedroom by Andre Dubus Escapes by Joy Williams Among the Missing by Dan Chaon Airships by Barry Hannah I Cannot Tell a Lie, Exactly by Mary Ladd Gavell The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Van Booy Tumble Home by Amy Hempel The Fun Parts by Sam Lipsyte Out of the Woods by Chris Offutt Barking Man by Madison Smartt Bell The Dog of the Marriage by Amy Hempel The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau