Joseph Olshan

The Sound of Heaven (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A powerful novel of family secrets, doomed passion, and the fragile love between a bisexual man and an emotionally damaged woman A talented musician, James arrives in Italy in 1983, just ahead of the panic in New York City caused by the burgeoning AIDS epidemic. In Rome, the Eternal City, he meets Diana. Their attraction is intense and immediate. A passionate relationship is born and soon they are inseparable, reveling in their shared love of art and Italian culture. But storm clouds hang over their union: dark secrets of abuse from his youth, her pain over her brother's death, and James's open admission that he has known other men sexually. Back in New York, their relationship falls apart. For James and Diana, it is time to move on; to come to terms with the ghosts that haunt their lives and family histories; to find new paths and new lovers. But the darkness of their relationship is inescapable and persistent even though their love is gone. James has received news that will impact both their lives in devastating ways: He is HIV positive. Joseph Olshan's The Sound of Heaven is an extraordinary novel, at once romantic and troubling, terrifying and compassionate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 239
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781480421547
• Artikelnr.: 44662525

Autorenporträt

Joseph Olshan is an award-winning American novelist whose works include Cloudland, The Conversion, Nightswimmer,and The Sound of Heaven .His critically acclaimed first novel, Clara's Heart,was the winner ofthe Times/Jonathan Cape Young Writers' Competition and subsequently the basis for a motion picture starring Academy Award-winner Whoopi Goldberg. Aformerbook reviewer for the Wall Street Journal, Olshan has written extensively for numerous publications including the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, the Times(London) ,the Washington Post, Harper's Bazaar, Peoplemagazine, and Entertainment Weekly. Once a professor of creative writing at New York University,Olshan currently lives in Vermont. His work has been translated into sixteen languages.