{"product_id":"black-maps","title":"Black Maps","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBlack Maps\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDavid Jauss\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781558490338\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Massachusetts Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1996\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eNew ed.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Black Maps | David Jauss | Hardcover | 9781558490338 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1615025","offer_id":50694111559938,"sku":"1615025","price":25.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81m27X47EVL.jpg?v=1791543969","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/black-maps","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}