Aftermath: Stories (Paperback)
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Praise for Aftermath: Stories…
WHETHER HE'S DESCRIBING a married couple experimenting with trial
separation or a young woman dealing with her father's cancer, Scott
Nadelson writes brilliantly about the many forms of ambivalence that
love can take. His characters, of all ages, are wonderfully vivid.
Aftermath is a sophisticated, emotionally complicated collection with
an exhilarating undercurrent of danger. —MARGOT LIVESEY, author of The House on Fortune Street
SCOTT NADELSON'S STORIES begin with some rupture--a break-up, an accident--and explore the messy results. The relative (and often self-imposed) hell in which Nadelson's characters find themselves is more than counter-balanced by the heaven of the telling. There's so much to enjoy in the bluesy aftermath: the deftly drawn characters, the world replete with all-too-normal strangeness, and the sharp-eyed, clever perceptions. I emerged from the book, as if from a movie, so lost in and convinced by the vivid screen, that the world felt a little sun-bleached in comparison. —DEBRA SPARK, author of Good for the Jews
