{"product_id":"9781250034694","title":"Nine Inches: Stories","description":"\u003cp\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.   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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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":"St. Martin's Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082791436528,"sku":"9781250034694","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250034694_p0.jpg?v=1769891512","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250034694","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}