A Midlife Intermezzo

About the Book

REVIEWS of A MIDLIFE INTERMEZZO

**** Four stars (out of five)
“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…”

-Clarion (Foreword) Review        

 “…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 ...”

-Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Boas Gonen is a physician who has been interested in literature for his entire life, though most of his writing has been on medical subjects. He is an avid reader, who considers Homer’s Odyssey the best book ever written, and is partial to all the Russian Classics. Two additional books—“The Third Patient” and “Tashi Delek”—will be published in 2014, and a fourth book, “Saving Marina K.”, in 2015. On a good day (after two cups of coffee), he can understand parts of seven languages and read in four alphabets. He has visited forty-two countries and lived on three continents. He is interested in philosophy, music and politics and plays chess at a high level. Dr. Gonen lives in Philadelphia, is married, and has three children.