Pale Highway

Find this and other Reviews at InToriLex Actual Rating 4.5 A mixture of fantasy and insightful self reflection, this was a great read. Gabriel is trying to piece together who he was and hold on to what's left of his mind at the end of his life. The novel flashes through his past describing pivotal de......more

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. The protagonist, Gabriel Schist, is a brilliant Nobel Prize--winning scientist who ha......more

Talk about a book that surprised and impressed me at every turn. This sci-fi novel about an elderly gentleman with Alzheimer’s filled my heart with love, joy, and hope. I will say, as I’ve heard other people mention, the slugs were a little bit weird. I, for the most part, can get behind the slugs,......more

Conley touchingly portrays the ongoing personal struggle of a person with the early symptoms of Alzheimer's. The main character, Gabriel grapples with feelings of abandonment and longing for the past, completely directionless and lost. In the midst of this, Conley does a fantastic job of clearly con......more

Pale Highway by Nicholas Conley. Gabriel 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......more