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...

• 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!