The Conversion
Olshan, Joseph
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AUTHOR BIO
Joseph Olshan is the award-winning author of eight novels. His first novel was Claras Heart, which went on to be made into a film starring Whoppi Goldberg. His other novels include Nightswimmer and In Claras Hands. In addition he has written extensively for newspapers and magazines and for several years was a professor of Creative Writing at New York University. He spends most of the year in Vermont.
BOOK REVIEWS
Beautiful, bittersweetThis fervent story of love and loss, of the perils and pleasures of intimacy, is depicted with a sure, light touch and with universal resonance and appeal. New York Times Book Review on Nightswimmer
Olshan writes prose that sings. Los Angeles Times Book Review on A Warmer Season
A beautifully written story of love, betrayal and loss. People Magazine on Nightswimmer
a finely written and compassionate book. Its quality is immediately apparent.a novel characterized by poetic instinct rather than documentary panache. The Sunday Times (London) on The Waterline
Authentically moving. Newsweek on A Warmer Season
Extraordinarily mature.Here is a writer in total command of his narrative. -- Ian McEwan on Claras Heart
"Olshan's novels are novels of great obsessions, of transcendent moments of perfect love set against a backdrop of hovering betrayal and death. -- The Guardian (London) on Vanitas
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0312373910
ISBN(13-digit): 9780312373917
Dewey Decimal: 813/.54
Library of Congress: 2007044345
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 278
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