Food for Jackals
Three Short Novels
- Fiction
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2014
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Publisher's Description
These novellas track three meaning-making, moral skirmishes: a thickening tennis pro on the Florida-New York teaching circuit grapples with weakening personal commitments and a fading serve; a dispirited short-term Coast Guard reservist struggles with the ambiguity of an accidental murder on an icebreaker heading to the arctic; and an American vacuum sewers entrepreneur and a local archeologist explore the exploitation of women, art, and sexual comedy in Venice, Italy.
Endorsements (1)
“In intricately wrought novellas, John Zeugner gives us characters who we're glad we're not, but whom we love to watch be put through their paces. Like Frank, the tennis player, they achieve their petty victories. Like Seaman Spradlin, they are inadequate when faced with moral dilemmas. Like Claudio/Hugh, they are vain puffs, more interested in self-gratification than in the higher causes they pretend to espouse. No alignment with club or country, on any level, can fully redeem them.”
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