Bradfield, Scott - Eileen Pollack (review date 30 June 1996)
Eileen Pollack (review date 30 June 1996)
SOURCE: Pollack, Eileen. “Into the Twilight Zone.” Washington Post Book World 26 (30 June 1996): 4.
[In the following review of Greetings from Earth, Pollack comments that, while Bradfield's fiction focuses on the internal lives of his characters, his stories lack emotionally engaging content.]
In Chekhov's Moscow, people trying to escape the dreariness and deception of their public lives have an affair. In Scott Bradfield's Los Angeles, they engage in out-of-body experiences in which their “disembodied essences” take the RTD bus to Santa Monica or “travel through space like a beautiful angel and walk on the icy moon.”
And here I thought most people in L.A. were consumed by consuming, materialists all. The characters in Bradfield's new story collection, Greetings from Earth, mostly live in their minds and are more obsessed with gaining spiritual enlightenment than,...
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