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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.
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This second collection of short stories by David Jauss opens with an epigram from Milan Kundera that sets the stage for many of the characters in Black Maps: "It takes so little ... for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning." Among those for whom all meaning is lost is the man in "Torque" who gives up his wife and a child for the sake of an odd quest to build a limousine. Or the son in "Glossolalia" whose father has suffered a nervous breakdown. The people here bear the weight of their troubles uneasily, but with a certain world-weary acceptance.
About the Author
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.
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- PublisherUniversity of Massachusetts Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 1558490337
- ISBN 13 9781558490338
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- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages176
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