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list price: $16.95
edition:eBook
category: Fiction
published: Sep 2013
ISBN:9781770894280
publisher:
House of Anansi Press Inc
Description
The new collection from the New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Little Children, featuring stories focusing on Perrotta's familiar suburban nuclear families.
Tom Perrotta’s first book, Bad Haircut, consisted of linked stories featuring a shared protagonist. Now, nineteen years later, he has written and compiled his first true short story collection. This twelve story collection features a group set in Perrotta’s trademark suburban setting, focusing on the fissures in families and unexpected connections among members of typical American communities, including “Senior Season” and "Nine Inches." Other offerings showcase Perrotta's assured, smooth writing, but many may surprise fans with new protagonists and concerns. One of these twistier stories is “The Smile on Happy Chang’s Face,” which was the Boston Book Festival’s first all-city One City, One Story selection in 2010.
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Following up on his dramatic and bestselling novel The Leftovers, which is being developed by HBO as a series, Nine Inches is a varied and interesting book from one of our most thoughtful and elegant writers.
Editorial Reviews
Perrotta novels are known for their unpredictable, edgy content and often morally ambiguous characters. The 12 stories in Nine Inches do not disappoint.
— Winnipeg Free Press
Perrotta’s writing style is distinct. He is a direct, conversational, and graceful writer whom eases readers into the work. In particular, Perrotta’s writing allows the characters to come alive...
— The Weekender
With a deft command of structure, [Perrotta] allows multiple characters to cross paths, make mistakes and sometimes correct them, creating ripple effects and counterpoints that add up to a satisfying whole.
— New York Times
Mr. Perrotta is...heralded as an all-purpose chronicler of suburbia...
— Wall Street Journal
Nine Inches is a razor-sharp and highly entertaining collection of short stories. It's also a masterful examination of the fragilities that lie just beneath the surface of our everyday veneers.
— Toronto Star
The dark suburban tales of Nine Inches are compelling and likely to appeal even to many Americans with no special interest in the short story...
— The Millions
...his writing is funny, thoughtful and highly readable.
— Star Tribune
Clear, straightforward and unaffected, the writing in this book dazzles...
— Gauntlet
Perrotta perfectly captures the low-level agony the people we’re forced to engage with [...] can cause us.
— Dallas Morning NEws
...Perrotta turns his satiric gaze on suburbia and unearths gem after gem about modern life.
— Miami Herald
As deeply satisfying and insidiously disturbing as the author's longer fiction.
— Kirkus
Perrotta’s best asset is his great, big heart: You find yourself rooting for vulnerable antiheroes and heroines...
— Washington Post
The author’s uncanny finesse with treading the line between the broadly comedic and nearly maudlin by dint of spare language and quiet observation is the gift that separates him from so many chroniclers of our time.
— Time Out
One of the pleasures of Nine Inches is that...[the stories] have emotional momentum.
— Boston Globe
...Perrotta mines his familiar but fascinating territory...
— Entertainment Weekly
...first-rate stories for grownups of every stripe.
— Portland Press Herald
Told with wit and grace, Perrotta's story collection lays bare the shifting relationships we all suffer and seldom comprehend, presenting characters who are ambushed by the hidden intentions of people they thought they knew.
— Publisher's Weekly
...there are no duds in Nine Inches...
— NPR
