The St. Veronica Gig Stories

by Jack Pulaski

Book Overview

Set in the immigrant streets and tenements of Brooklyn, Jack Pulaski's stories sparkle with incident, character, memory, and a touch of the surreal. In "Religious Instruction," a widowed scripture teacher channels her passion into a retelling of the primal stories of the bible that transixes her adolescent students: "When she marries again we will not hear these stories, not the same way." "Music Story" sketches a chilling portrait of urban ethnic territoriality, while in "Father of the Bride," a young Jew pursues the skeptical, profane and eccentric Carlos, seeking his daughter's hand.

"Get the book and read it. And then shower copies on everyone you know who still enjoys moving his or her eyes from left to right."--Sven Birkerts.

"Jack Pulaski has his turf, and the talent to work it."--Andrei Codrescu

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0939010097
• ISBN13: 9780939010097
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Zephyr Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

The Saint Veronica Gig Stories

This book is great. The discriptions are so vivid I feel and smell New York when I read it. The characters are more than believable. I read this book more than once to get everything out of the intense writting style.

The Origin and History of the Pulaskian Creative Impulse

Jack Pulaski is multi-cultural Brooklyn's answer to Dylan Thomas -- except that Pulaski took to the Vermont woods and survived, while his Welch counterpart came to New York... too bad for Dylan Thomas. As for Jack Pulaski's writing -- the Kotzker Rebbe one reviled a visiting Chassidic philosopher by roaring, "Your teachings come from the mind, my teachings come from the gut!" That's where Pulaski's superbly-crafted stories come from, too (evidently a very surrealistic place). Superb, courageous, inspired writing!