Black Maps - Couverture rigide

Jauss, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1558490337 ISBN 13 : 9781558490338

Editeur : University of Massachusetts Press, 1996

Synopsis

In these finely crafted stories, David Jauss depicts the lives of ordinary people who have crossed the border into a new and dark country where what once sustained them no longer exists. A man saws his car in half when his wife and son leave him. Close to the no-hitter that will give him his chance at "The Bigs," a minor league pitcher from the Dominican Republic refuses to throw another pitch. An alcoholic attending his son's funeral discovers in a lie he once told a truth that could destroy or save him. With gentle words and acts of love, a husband succumbs to his latent brutality. A soldier in Vietnam steps on a mine that fails to detonate and enters into a new and baffling kind of war.

As the epigraph from Milan Kundera suggests, the secret of life is that "the border beyond which everything loses meaning . . . is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch." With an unerring eye for human frailty, Jauss maps this ever-shifting boundary.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, David Jauss is author of a previous volume of short stories, Crimes of Passion, and a collection of poems, Improvising Rivers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Massachusetts Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1558490337
• ISBN 13: 9781558490338
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible