Joseph Olshan, Author . Bloomsbury $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7475-5704-3
Olshan brings back the warm and waggish Jamaican housekeeper of his successful 1985 debut, Clara's Heart, but fans of that novel (or of Whoopi Goldberg's movie version) may be disappointed by how little page time she receives here. The novel
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Joseph Olshan, Author . St. Martin’s $24.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-312-37391-7
Olshan’s crisp, satisfying new novel follows American translator and author Russell Todaro, a Jewish gay man who becomes embroiled in the death and ensuing scandal of a former lover. While in France with Ed, a well-known Parisian poet, they...
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Joseph Olshan, Author Arbor House $15.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-87795-744-7
With its intricate characterization, a plot that weaves together two very different cultures, and a narrative enriched by fresh, often poignant dialogue, this is an extraordinary first novel. At its heart is the unusually close relationship betwen...
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Joseph Olshan, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $15.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-07-083641-9
Fine writing and sensitive characterizations distinguish this new novel by the author of Clara's Heart, which won the 1985 London Times/Jonathan Cape Young Writer's Award. The plot revolves around Daniel Fell, a senior at a suburban high school...
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Joseph Olshan, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-385-26505-8
A mixture of the trite and the true, alternating glib psychologizing with perceptive insights, Olshan's third novel (after Clara's Heart ) has commercial potential despite several striking flaws. In successive chapters, Susan and Michael Kaplan...
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Joseph Olshan, Author Simon & Schuster $19.5 (252p) ISBN 978-0-671-88580-9
Intensely personal and infused with a rare degree of immediacy, Olshan's ( Clara's Heart ) first venture into gay-themed fiction succeeds on several levels. A dramatic death brings Sean Paris into the life of narrator Will Kaplan, who is still...
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Joseph Olshan, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-684-83396-5
Love triangles and mirror images, AIDS, art and deception color this provocative but ultimately unconvincing tale of a bisexual man's need for family in a world where the old archetypes no longer seem to fit. When renowned New York art dealer Elliot
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Joseph Olshan. Minotaur, $24.99 (418p) ISBN 978-1-250-00017-0
Olshan (The Conversion), known for his literary fiction, delivers a crime novel more likely to satisfy mainstream than genre readers. Catherine Winslow, a former investigative journalist and college professor, gets drawn into the hunt for a serial...
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Joseph Olshan. Polis, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-947993-34-1
On a cold winter evening in Carleton, Vt., the principal setting of this nuanced literary mystery from Olshan (Cloudland), college student Luc Flanders vanishes after playing a game of pickup hockey with his roommates. That same evening the...
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