Stuart Nadler is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was awarded a Truman Capote Fellowship and a Teaching-Writing Fellowship. Recently, he was the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin. His fiction has appeared in The Atlantic.
"A writer of keen perception and sensibility, Nadler describes the
difficult thresholds that separate absence and presence, arrivals
and departures, the sacred and profane, bright memory and dark
nostalgia. His writing reminds me why I love to read."--Gina
Ochsner, author of The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight
"In The Book of Life, Stuart Nadler offers a fresh, funny,
perceptive take on the current state of the Jewish family,
including the families we make with our friends and lovers. Like
Bernard Malamud, Nadler has a gift for comic/ironic dialogue and
for setting thoroughly modern characters on a collision course with
the distant past. A truly talented writer."--Sharon Pomerantz,
author of Rich Boy
"Stuart Nadler addresses tradition, but he captures the right-now
as well as anybody. He's heart-breaking, yet he's funny. He writes
beautifully, tersely, masterfully."--Darin Strauss, author of Chang
and Eng and Half a Life
"Stuart Nadler has written seven of the most gorgeous, poignant,
intricately crafted, and compulsively readable stories I have read
in a long time. His flawed protagonists tend to be forever on the
brink of heartbreak, yet the unlikely effect of Nadler's fiction is
that life is continually reaffirmed."--Frederick Reiken, author of
Day for Night
"Stuart Nadler is an artist of secrets. Line after line of clear,
revealing prose turn out to be incendiary. These are stories that
expand without warning. A striking, rousing collection of people
waking up fast. Nothing in The Book of Life is without
consequence."--Rosecrans Baldwin, author of You Lost Me There
Stuart Nadler treats his characters like people. The Book of Life
is a fitting title for this collection-that's what it's about:
life. Here's a Chekovian fascination with the human condition-the
pleasures and tortures of family, love, sex, money, work, religion.
These are stories about fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, wives,
husbands, friends, lovers-people with complex lives, troubled
souls, deep hearts and messy desires. Nadler is a writer, who, like
Alice Munro, John Cheever or Bernard Malamud, does not write about
"ordinary people" because he knows there's no such thing as an
ordinary person. Each of these carefully wrought stories is as
moving and masterful as a Chopin sonata; the notes and the silences
between them will resonate with the reader for a very long time
after they're done.--Benjamin Hale, author of The Evolution of
Bruno Littlemore
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
