Vanitas
By: Joseph Olshan.
Publisher: Simon & Shuster
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Fiction.; Gay men -- Fiction.
Description: The moment that Sam Solomon, the protagonist of Vanitas, is transfixed by an erotic drawing that hangs in the apartment of a dying art dealer, Elliot Garland, he finds himself caught in an undertow of confusion and longing. Garland, stricken with AIDS, has hired Sam to write his memoirs and yet manages to withhold crucial information about his life.

Sam suspects, however, that the drawing, called Vanitas, is the relic of a dramatic, and secret, history that could provide answers to the questions his subject has refused to address.