Pale Highway, by Nicholas Conley
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Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novel - Predators & Editors Readers Poll 2015"Steeped in suspense, Conley's novel delves into the darker recesses of the medical establishment. Gabriel is a sympathetic character, and the reader is pulled into his private struggles." - Publishers Weekly"Pale Highway brings his struggles for survival along with his fierce desire to hold off his symptoms long enough to save everyone around him to brilliant, beautiful life." - Examiner.comGabriel Schist is spending his remaining years at Bright New Day, a nursing home. He once won the Nobel Prize for inventing a vaccine for AIDS. But now, he has Alzheimer's, and his mind is slowly slipping away.When one of the residents comes down with a horrific virus, Gabriel realizes that he is the only one who can find a cure. Encouraged by Victor, an odd stranger, he convinces the administrator to allow him to study the virus. Soon, reality begins to shift, and Gabriel's hallucinations interfere with his work.As the death count mounts, Gabriel is in a race against the clock and his own mind. Can he find a cure before his brain deteriorates past the point of no return?
Pale Highway, by Nicholas Conley - Amazon Sales Rank: #224354 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-10-20
- Released on: 2015-10-20
- Format: Kindle eBook
Pale Highway, by Nicholas Conley Review "Steeped in suspense, Conley's novel delves into the darker recesses of the medical establishment. Gabriel is a sympathetic character, and the reader is pulled into his private struggles." - Publishers Weekly"Pale Highway brings his struggles for survival along with his fierce desire to hold off his symptoms long enough to save everyone around him to brilliant, beautiful life." - Examiner.com "Pale Highway by Nicholas Conley is at once a tautly written sci-fi/fantasy novel, a probing character study, a medical thriller, and a literary gem that explores the complexities and nuances of the human condition." - Michael Fedison "With a growing elderly population, this book serves as not only a character study on one man's fight against his own mind and body but also to highlight the continuing need to help the older generation and try to understand before it is our turn." - Steve Johnson "In the best tradition of writers like Stephen King, Conley stretches the imagination, provides thoughtful insight into what it means to grow old and lose parts of what once defined us and, in the end, takes us on a fantastical ride into the very nature of what it means to be human." - Ann Werner "Let me say this: Pale Highway is like nothing I've ever read before." - J. D. Thompson "It is not often that my own words escape me as I try to recount the beauty, the true understanding of such a devoted man who struggles to hold off his own real-life manifestations to save everyone around him." - Catherine Putsche
About the Author Nicholas Conley's passion for storytelling began at an early age, prompted by a love of science fiction novels, comic books, and horror movies. His novel Pale Highway is influenced by his experience working with Alzheimer's patients in a nursing home, a subject that he has also written about for publications such as Vox. When not busy writing, Nicholas spends his time reading, traveling to new places, and indulging in a lifelong coffee habit.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A spectacularly rich, dramatic, heartbreaking, and joyous crescendo By Thomas S Flowers Nicholas Conley's Pale Highway is a fantastic read in a brand I typically do not indulge in, yet somehow, through his characterization and prose, in the guise of Gabriel Schist, Nicholas was able to hold me spellbound all the way to the completion of the story. When I say, "not my typical brand," this is true, I typically do not read disaster, world plague type books (well, except for perhaps Stephen King's The Stand). Nothing personal to the sub-genre, but it has been my experience, for the most part, those kinds of books typically skim over character development in lieu for action sequences, and too often (sadly) hateful rhetoric and needless doomsday-isms. LET ME BE VERY CLEAR AT THIS JUNCTION, Pale Highway does none of those things. In fact, the "plague" acted as nothing more than to keep the momentum of the story, to keep motivations rolling towards its ultimate conclusion. The real story is in the tired, tragic life of one Gabriel Schist. In that story, we find so much more than the arc of one man's life, we also find perhaps a "highway," if you will, pointing us toward deeper, more meaningful questions, not about what we'll wear this weekend on a date, but rather, questions of what we're doing with our lives, how we're treating those we love and strangers alike, who we are spending time with. In the immortal words of Henry David Thoreau, "It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"The prologue puts us a little bit into the future, giving the reader a small glimpse of things to come. A Black Virus has swept into the halls of Bright New Day and into the lap of one Gabriel Schist, a Nobel Prize winning genius/scientist suffering with Alzheimer's, who, somehow, is supposed to stop the epidemic. From here, we know the score. Something bad is on the way, and given Mr. Schist's cognitive condition, the odds are not in his favor, but instead of playing up some sort of blockbuster-ish global terrorism BS as so many other biological Armageddon books typically do, no, from here we move into the lives of the people residing in the beds of Bright New Day, a nursing home along the coast of New Hampshire. And we also get to experience, if only marginally yet beautifully written, how it is to live in a nursing home, how it is to have your basic cognitive functions slowly slip away. You can tell right away, this story was written from experience, and I suspect that the character known as Harry could possibly be a mirror of Nicholas himself.Be-that-as-it-may, one of the finer qualities of the book was how Nicholas carefully walked the reader through Gabriel's life. We get to see, inch by painful inch, his story unfold, from the lows to the highs, so much so that certain elements are so systematically revealed, there is a real mesmerizing quality to the pages.Without revealing too much, and I want to leave a lot of detail out of this review, mostly because I want a first time reader to discover these things on their own, in their natural environment and revelation. However, if we were to look upon this work as a musical composition, I'd say Nicholas hit a range of notes, colliding together in a spectacularly rich, dramatic, heartbreaking, and joyous crescendo. There were moments of happiness. There were moments of tragedy and helplessness (lots of helplessness, and not too surprising considering the subject matter). Lots of regret and understanding purpose. And, especially towards the middle and later half, moments of dementia, unsure if things seen are real or the figment of Gabriel's imagination, hallucinations caused by his rapidly decaying mind.And...I will not spoil the rest. You'll have to find out on your own what happens. Overall, my only complaint, and this is marginal, was the absence of the daughter, Melanie, from a majority of the story. There is a beautiful father-daughter scene in chapter 2, and I had hoped to see more of them. But the focus was not on Melanie, but rather Gabriel, thus, we did not venture far from his perspective. And that's okay, it doesnt ruin anything at all. When she finally does come back into play, those moments really captured the emotional momentum, literally bringing tears to my eyes. Thank you for that, Nicolas, really. And bravo, sir. Bravo.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Inside the Mind of a Brilliant Man With Alzheimer's--The Ultimate Horror Story. Must Read. By Rochelle Weber, Roses & Thorns Reviews Pale Highway was a fascinating look at Gabriel Schist, a brilliant man losing his faculties to Alzheimer’s. It’s not an easy book to read, though, and if you have difficulty keeping up with books that go back and forth between the past and present, reality and delusion, then you might want to try something more straight-forward. But if you can bridge the gaps of a mind riddled with the Swiss-cheese holes of a disease that robs even our highest intellects of the ability to process the simplest thoughts, then Pale Highway is definitely a must-read.A few years ago when I had more money and I was still able to pay my Mensa dues, I attended the Annual Gathering for both the US and Canada. There were thousands of us, and researchers gave a presentation on Alzheimer’s. Good thing the Fire Marshalls weren’t around, because we squeezed into that room like sardines. For us (as for anyone, really), Pale Highway is the ultimate horror story.I’ve worked in a nursing home. Can you imagine Einstein in diapers having pureed mush shoveled into his mouth as fast as he can swallow it because the aid has nine other patients to feed before the trays go back? Can you imagine him being there and having lucid moments when he knows that’s what’s happening to him? Add the mystery of his friends dying around him, he knows he’s the only one who can stop it, and he knows he’s running out of time. Because his lucid moments are coming fewer and farther between. There you have the makings of a doozy of a book—Pale Highway.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. What a different viewpoint for a novel! Great story! By Amazon Customer Business first: I got a copy of Pale Highway free for review.I just finished reading this novel and all I can think of is WOW. Having watched my mother lose herself to Alzheimer's (she was a proud, intelligent teacher who loved learning and exploring new places), this book brought out emotions in me that other readers may not experience. However, I cannot deny that the story Nicholas Conley tells is very well written and shows his insight into the plight of not only Alzheimer's victims but others who find themselves suffering in nursing homes.The characters are so real, but the setting of talking slugs and the otherworldly beings create a striking contrast with the gritty life the residents and caregivers live.Because of this contrast, I never was quite sure where the line between reality and the disease of Gabriel's mind was!Still, it really didn't matter. I was moved to tears towards the end, but also strangely uplifted by the good tale.The author makes some valid observations/criticisms of the health care/end of life facilities, as well. Kudos to Mr. Conley. What a different approach to a story! The uniqueness of this book really was a welcome change from the norm. I love wondering what will happen next when I read books, and this one had me asking that question right to the last page.
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