{"product_id":"9780939010813","title":"Chekhov was a Doctor","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Pulaski has a gift for combining the lyrical with the earthy.”— \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Jack Pulaski is returned to the fiction of his life in the novel \u003ci\u003eChekhov was a Doctor\u003c\/i\u003e , he’s more than surprised, but not shocked to recognize that an essential aspect of a returning obsession has pulled him back—or propelled him forward. He is only interested in the “creative process” inasmuch as it is a story. A love story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA protagonist discovering the terms of his life, which are the always-to-be-discovered requirements of his art: a peculiar virginal state, more promising than Candide’s dogmatic optimism; he is humbled before something that feels like fate; his helplessly attentive self, like the story about to unfold, a thing in itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePulaski is of necessity a slow learner, incapable of trusting illustrative thematic questions; his only option is to travel with the protagonists—Davy and Elena—to see what he can see. They bear unmistakable affinities with Laura and Isaac, the lovers in his previous novel, \u003ci\u003eCourting Laura Providencia\u003c\/i\u003e . Still, the souls of Elena and Davy are their own, as is their adventure and what they enact hopefully will provide the author with further education and the reader with a tale of significant ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJack Pulaski\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York. His stories have appeared in journals such as \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eOhio Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\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":47013135745264,"sku":"9780939010813","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780939010813_p0.jpg?v=1763857137","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780939010813","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}