Black Maps

by David Jauss

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558490337
• ISBN13: 9781558490338
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"