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

A Warmer Season

Literature & Fiction

Olshan, Joseph

United States

McGraw=Hill

Clara's Heart

British & Irish

JONATHAN CAPE.

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 hotel room, terrorizing Russell and his much older companion, a famous American poet named Edward Cannon. The intruders, not finding what they seemingly expected, leave without further incident but the baffling, traumatic events overwhelm Cannon who dies in his sleep later that night. Now Russell is left to ponder the meaning of the attack, what to do with the poet’s unfinished, problematic memoir and, perhaps most importantly, how to reconstruct and move forward with his own life. 
Hearing of the disturbing circumstances of Cannon’s death, an Italian writer, Marina Vezzoli, invites Russell to recuperate at her villa in Tuscany. But what at first seems like a generous invitation slowly reveals itself to be a calculated offer. As Russell’s stay in Italy lengthens, he begins to realize that the people in his life are using or manipulating him, most of all the poet’s New York publishers who, against the dying man’s wishes, are trying to acquire his unfinished manuscript. Looming over everything is the long and fascinating legacy of Villa Guidi, where during Word War II a Jewish family hid in the subterranean floors, later undergoing a conversion to Catholicism. In an echo of this dramatic history, Russell is forced to undergo a conversion of his own in order to find redemption and meaning in his life.]

The Conversion

St.Martin's Press

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 hotel room, terrorizing Russell and his much older companion, a famous American poet named Edward Cannon. The intruders, not finding what they seemingly expected, leave without further incident but the baffling, traumatic events overwhelm Cannon who dies in his sleep later that night. Now Russell is left to ponder the meaning of the attack, what to do with the poet's unfinished, problematic memoir and, perhaps most importantly, how to reconstruct and move forward with his own life. 
Hearing of the disturbing circumstances of Cannon's death, an Italian writer, Marina Vezzoli, invites Russell to recuperate at her villa in Tuscany. But what at first seems like a generous invitation slowly reveals itself to be a calculated offer. As Russell's stay in Italy lengthens, he begins to realize that the people in his life are using or manipulating him, most of all the poet's New York publishers who, against the dying man's wishes, are trying to acquire his unfinished manuscript. Looming over everything is the long and fascinating legacy of Villa Guidi, where during Word War II a Jewish family hid in the subterranean floors, later undergoing a conversion to Catholicism. In an echo of this dramatic history, Russell is forced to undergo a conversion of his own in order to find redemption and meaning in his life.

The Conversion: A Novel

Contemporary

St. Martin's: Griffin

When David's mother brought Clara Mayfield from Jamaica to live in their affluent household, David told the exotic intruder to go back to where she came from. But the indomitable Clara would take no nonsense, and soon began to capture David's affections.

Ballantine Books

A warmer season

A family disintegrates from feelings of guilt that they might have prevented the death of a neighbor's child.

The Waterline

DOUBLEDAY

Drawn together by their mutual attraction, two gay men find their relationship haunted by former lovers who have disappeared or died, the threat of AIDS, and their fears of intimacy, loss, and betrayal. Reprint.

Nightswimmer

Literary

BERKLEY

Berkley Trade

When Will Kaplan meets Sean Paris, he is gripped by what he recognizes as desire and by what he senses is a shared affliction of the heart - the unshakeable memory of lost love. For it has been ten years since the love of Will's life disappeared during a night swim in the Pacific, off the Santa Barbara coast, and Will still doesn't know if Chad was swallowed up in the wake of a passing barge or took that moment of confusion as an opportunity to abandon Will at sea. Now, on the edge of another ocean three thousand miles away, on the day of the Fire Island Morning Party, Will and Sean begin to wrestle with their ghosts and to weave themselves into a new embrace of intimacy. They plunge through the shadows of AIDS, the networks of mutual, ill-wishing friends, and the structures of gay life in New York City, both forward into their all-consuming affair, to the place where the real dangers lie, and back to the safer shallows of their past. What Will learns about Sean - and discovers about himself - carries him through the tides of love and obsession, loss and discovery. In Nightswimmer, Joseph Olshan has crafted a lyrical and complex work of fiction, bringing his widely acclaimed narrative talent to a story that is at once masterful and mature, intensely passionate and deeply affecting.

Simon&Schuster

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A Warmer Season

Clara's Heart

The Conversion

The Conversion: A Novel

Clara's Heart

A Warmer Season

The Waterline

Nightswimmer

Nightswimmer

Nightswimmer