A Midlife Intermezzo

<p><strong>REVIEWS of A MIDLIFE INTERMEZZO<br /></strong><strong><br />**** Four stars (out of five)<br /></strong><strong>“Fans of schadenfreude will devour this compelling story of a midlife crisis that deteriorates into obsession. Boas Gonen offers a drama of the human soul in A Midlife Intermezzo the compelling story of one man’s midlife crisis gone awry… The first-person perspective which can be tricky is well crafted. The voice is candid and honest. It provides suspense just when the story needs it: ‘It was time to quit …while my sanity was intact although I wondered whether it wasn’t too late for that.’ The characters are fully dimensional and fallible … This is a tale of one man’s struggles providing enough interest to inspire pressing on through all four hundred pages…”</strong></p> <p style=text-align: right;><strong>-</strong><strong><em>Clarion (Foreword) Review         </em></strong></p> <p><strong><em> </em></strong><strong>“…Gonen’s writing flows competently including scenesetting dialogue and point of view (some sections are in Svetlana’s voice); he uses Vip’s medical background to good effect and his discussions of opera are well-informed ...”</strong></p> <p style=text-align: right;><strong><em>-Kirkus Reviews</em></strong></p>