Aftermath review in Fifth Wednesday
Posted on 14. May, 2012 by Scott in Uncategorized
Many thanks to Adam Gallari for a very generous review in the spring issue of Fifth Wednesday Journal. Here are some highlights:
“He writes with such empathy and pathos that it is often easy to overlook the faults that have brought these characters to their present stalemates in life. They are often voluntary martyrs, but Nadelson’s skilled nuance and his impeccable dialogue render these characters less as victims or symptoms of a situation than as case studies in loss and regret…
Taken alone, “West End” is a powerful novella, and could very well inhabit its own book… [It] is thrilling, profoundly sad, and worth the price of the book alone…
Nadelson has a gift. He is the rare writer who can discuss the precious and the loaded territory of nostalgia without his work becoming sentimental and trite, and it is because Nadelson is, more than anything else, honest in his depictions and descriptions of life sans glory. Taken in a world where the denial of truth in favor of the easy and the simple is the norm, Aftermath stands out, and Nadelson shines. The literary world needs more authors like him, writers of serious prose who aren’t afraid to tackle the metaphysical questions that constitute a life.”