Joseph OLSHAN
Joseph OLSHAN
- Novels
- Black Diamond Fall
- The Conversion
- A Warmer Season
- Clara's Heart
- In Clara's Hands
- Nightswimmer
- The Sound of Heaven
- The Waterline
- Vanitas
- Wolverine Cirque
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WOLVERINE CIRQUE
Wolverine Cirque, one of the steepest and most dangerous ski runs
in North America, looms over this taut, gripping tale of male
athleticism and love.
Sam and Mike, top-notch skiers, hike miles off piste to face a harrowing
headwall of snow, a sheer descent that challenges their skill, endurance
and ultimately their ability to survive.
At the center of Olshan’s short story is Sam’s painful and poignant
reminiscence of a complicated and doomed love affair with Luc, a
Division I soccer player who struggles with his identity and the surprising
power of his desire finally unleashed. As both men grapple with the
intensity of their affection for one another, Sam is forced to reckon that
his attempt to master Wolverine Cirque is really a futile effort to stay the
arguably more difficult decline of his own youth.
“Joseph Olshan writes prose that sings.”
Los Angeles Times on A Warmer Season
“Olshan’s novels are novels of great obsession, of transcendent moments
of perfect love set against a backdrop of hovering betrayal and death.”
The Guardian on Vanitass
