Toby Olson

• Nov-1976
• / General Fiction
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The Life of Jesus is neither a historical fiction nor a devout retelling of the mission and passion of Christ. Rather, it is an unabashed and intimately revealing autobiographical fiction told primarily in the terms of Gospel legend.

• Apr-1982
• / Literary
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The action of Toby Olson’s PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel Seaview sweeps eastward, following three men and two women across a wasted American continent to an apocalyptic confrontation on Cape Cod. Melinda hopes to reach the seaside where she was ...

• Apr-1986
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• Jun-1987
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1990
• / General Fiction
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Edward Church, a painter who had deserted his wife to explore art and love in the Greek isle of Lesbos, leaves, upon his death, an enigmatic legacy and a nephew who must sort out the bewildering implications of Edward's fate...

• May-1993
• / Suspense
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• Oct-2000
• / General Fiction
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A wonderful story of what family means, of the flesh-level pain of sibling rivalry, and the discovery of love. It is a fantastic and beautiful tapestry of some of the most imaginative and precise prose writing going on in America today. Toby Olson st...

• Sep-2003
• / Suspense
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El Malabarista, pianist and juggler for a troupe of sexual performance artists, is found dead in the dusty wilderness, his fingers crushed. Beginning like a murder mystery, " The Blond Box "then defies all the usual expectations of a murder mystery p...

• Mar-2008
• / General Fiction
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Four old men -- John, Gino, Larry, and Frank -- have been warehoused at "the Manor," a long-eroded home for the forgotten. The men take turns telling stories, stalling death as they relive pivotal parts of their pasts. Outside, the cliff crumbles ...

• Mar-2020
• / Literary
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By turns romantic and disquieting, Toby Olson's Walking weaves the real and the imagined into a chilling, occasionally hopeful tapestry. Set on an imaginary peninsula on the New England coast, Walking presents a lyrical, nightmarish, and unexpecte...

• Mar-2021
• / General Fiction
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Twenty-four short stories by Toby Olson are collected here for the first time. They move effortlessly from depictions of American working-class and suburban life to wondrous and sometimes grotesque surrealism, but always with an undertone of humanity...