Joseph Olshan

• Jan-1987
• / General Fiction
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Daniel Fell, a seventeen-year-old Jewish boy tortured over his parents divorce befriends two Italians--Gianni Scaravento and his terminally ill mother Angela--who give him the strength to fight his battle...

• Feb-1987
• / General Fiction
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Originally published to international acclaim and the basis for the beloved film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Joseph Olshan’s prize-winning novel charts the profound, rare friendship between a wise Jamaican woman named Clara and David, a twelve-year-o...

• Sep-1989
• / General Fiction
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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 narra...

• Sep-1992
• / General Fiction
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James had left for Italy in 1983, missing the AIDS panic which began to sweep Manhattan. Falling in love with Diana, he became aware that his bisexuality posed an emotional threat to both the men and the women in his life. Other work by the author in...

• Sep-1994
• / General Fiction
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Ten years ago, Will's lover disappeared on a night swim in the Pacific. Was Will's emptiness a feeling of mourning or rejection? He now meets Sean, who is himself the object of a passionate fatal obsession. As they dodge one another, they move in a n...

• Jul-1998
• / General Fiction
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The pursuit of Eros, the yearning for intimacy, and the struggle to reconcile bisexuality with a longing for children -- these are the desires etched in the hearts of the characters of this brave and probing novel by the award-winning author of Clara...

• Nov-2002
• / General Fiction
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Clara, heroine of Clara’s Heart and former nanny of Will Kaplan, comes once more to his rescue. Marie Claire, Will’s friend, may have been caught in the catastrophic jumbo-jet crash off Long Island. Yet, mysteriously, the airline throws her very ...

• Mar-2008
• / General Fiction
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Russell Todaro, a young American translator, moves to Paris to take stock of his life and goals only to further lose himself in the surprising twists fate has in store for him. One night, two men waving guns and knives break and enter their Paris hot...

• Apr-2012
• / Mystery
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A stunning literary thriller set in rural Vermont from the much praised author of Nightswimmer and Clara's Heart Once a major reporter for a national newspaper, Catherine Winslow has retreated to the Upper Valley of Vermont to write a household hi...

• Jul-2013
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-2018
• / General Fiction
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From the acclaimed author of CLARA’S HEART and CLOUDLAND comes a rich, literary mystery based and united by two real events that occurred at Middlebury College; the disappearance of a student during winter break; and the vandalism of the Robert Fro...

• May-2025
• / Thriller
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Award-winning author Joseph Olshan’s latest novel, Milo’s Reckoning, follows a grieving New York PhD student through an investigation into the death of his mentor, leading him along a trail of dark clues that take him to Italy and beyond....