The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (795 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0983477566 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Much Enjoyed Poe ballantine Enjoyed much this book, my fellow readers, a very quick and lusty read. One reviewer here is expressing impatience or distress over self-examination and I don’t fault him for that, but self-examination is exactly my cup of tea. I want to know about the authors I’m reading. I’m so much less enthusiastic about these vaunted literary kings who compose wisely from high thrones bestowing upon us their fancy language and then later on commit suicide (some wisdom). Scott’s styl. Deeply personal, highly entertaining Timothy J. Bazzett Scott Nadelson's very 'literary' and deeply personal memoir, THE NEXT SCOTT NADELSON, is in one way a kind of 'one-trick pony.' Nadelson is a young aspiring writer, transplanted from his Jewish solidly upper middle-class New Jersey upbringing to Portland, Oregon. The central motif of his memoir is repeated over and over until you just wanna say: OKAY! I GET it! You were JILTed! And your 'ex-fiancee' (a label manifestly overused, I assume to protect her actually identity) was a manipulative conf. Sharon Nadelson said The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress. The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress.Scott Nadelson"s collection of essays revealed a difficult journey of a young man trying to find a comfortable place for himself after a devestating disappointment. Each essay revealed something about the young man in an insightful way.
Nadelson chronicles his life in progress with the wry, warm honesty of an old friend catching up after many years. Nadelson examines moments in his life marked by failure and disappointment, yet nothing fails or disappoints in this fine modern memoir. "A poignant meditation on love, literature, and the pains as well as the perverse pleasures of loneliness. He reminds us that the world can be simultaneously huge and miniscule, that what we read and see and remember is at once nothing and everything, that wholeness is much greater than any sum total you ca
Over the next two years, he’d struggle, with equivocal and sometimes humiliating results, to get back on his feet, in the process re-examining his past to understand his present circumstances.The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress is a literary self-portrait that revolves around the dissolution of a relationship but encompasses the long process of a young man’s halting self-discovery. He learned that his cat was dying. To read the resulting book is to join him on a personal journey that is thoughtful, surprising, occasionally hilarious, and unapologetically human.. He moved into a drafty attic. Exploring episodes from the life of its author/narrator marked by failure, suffering, and hope, as well as literary and cultural influence, the book weighs the things that make us want to give up against the things that keep us going. Together they form a larger narrative, a search for fulfillment and identity in a life often governed by f