NHibernate version:
1.0.0.2

Mapping documents:

<class name="DM.Book" table="Books">
<id column="bookId" name="bookId">
<generator class="assigned" />
</id>
<property column="name" name="name" />
<many-to-one name="Author" class="DM.Author" column="authorId"
fetch="join" outer-join="true" not-null="false" />
</class>

Name and version of the database you are using:
Oracle 9i

Problem:
Even though I configured the many-to-one to use outer-join,
When I try to - session.Load a book with an author that I deleted,
I get the following error:
ObjectNotFoundException - No Row With The Given Idetifier Exists...

Am I configuring the outer-join incorrectly?

Thanks ahead

sternr