{"product_id":"9780939010684","title":"Courting Laura Providencia","description":"\u003cp\u003ePuerto Rican, Russian-Jewish, and Italian cultures collide in homage both to the art and form of the novel, as well as to the passions and histories that fuel our American lives. Pulaski's prose boxes through the surreal and banal. The novel weaves the maelstrom of immigrant life in post WWII New York, and the terrifying solitude of Alzheimer's cloaked beneath Vermont winters, into a fable where the sacred and the profane are inextricably wed. \u003ci\u003eCourting Laura Providencia\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary devotional.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eLaura said she was sure he was the father, packed up her things, and moved out of the apartment. She had been cheerful as she collected her belongings. She said Isaac was the sweetest boy she had ever known, and \"a rare thing, \u003c\/i\u003e muy singular \u003ci\u003e, a Jewish drunk.\" Isaac wanted to say that was not exactly right, but he \u003c\/i\u003e was \u003ci\u003e drunk at the time and so he sang to her. Laura snapped the suitcase shut, settled herself in a chair, smiled, and let him sing. For a moment Isaac was stunned. It happened often looking straight into the face of Laura Providencia could cause amnesia, sleepwalking, and archaic longings which might require several lifetimes to understand. He had seen it happen to others.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJack Pulaski\u003c\/b\u003e was born and grew up in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York. His stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eOhio Review\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eMSS.\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eThe New England Review\u003c\/i\u003e , as well as in two anthologies: \u003ci\u003eThe Pushcart Prize I\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ploughshares Reader\u003c\/i\u003e . He is the recipient of a fiction award from the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, and his stories have twice been singled out for high praise in the Nelson Algren Short Fiction Contest. Pulaski currently lives in Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zephyr Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013125587184,"sku":"9780939010684","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780939010684_p0.jpg?v=1769861013","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780939010684","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}