<![CDATA[The Soul Thief: A Novel]]>

false <![CDATA[The Soul Thief: A Novel]]> 1428572 4 Here is an extraordinary new novel from one of our most admired and acclaimed writers, a creator of "stunning, never predictable, glimmering fiction, full of mischief and insight” (Los Angeles Times). During Nathaniel Mason’s first few months as a graduate student in upstate New York, he is drawn into a tangle of relationships with people who seem to hover just beyond his grasp. There’s Theresa, alluring but elusive, and Jamie, who is fickle if not wholly unavailable. But Jerome Coolberg is the most mysterious and compelling. Not only cryptic about himself, he seems to have appropriated parts of Nathaniel’s past that Nathaniel cannot remember having told him about. It is Jerome who seems to trigger the events that precipitate Nathaniel’s total breakdown, and Jerome who shows up 30 years later--Nathaniel having finally reconstituted his life--to suggest, with the most staggering consequences, that Nathaniel’s identity may in fact not be his own. In The Soul Thief, Charles Baxter has given us one of his most beautifully wrought and unexpected works of fiction: at once lyrical and eerie, acutely observant in its sensual and emotional detail and audaciously metaphysical in its underpinnings. It is a brilliant novel--one that is certain to expand both his already-stellar reputation and his readership. 1419065 12 2 2008 The Soul Thief: A Novel total:505|5:37|4:114|3:191|2:121|1:42| 505 1498 919 171 4 8 false false Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 06 08:55:55 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 15 22:42:52 -0800 2009
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...more...]]> 3 4 false false Mon Jan 26 05:27:09 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 08:44:15 -0800 2009 The Soul Thief reads more like a short story or novella than a novel. There’s an unfinished quality that works well in the first person narrative; you could envision the narrator sitting in a coffee shop, focusing on the story, choosing his words carefully, but inevitably leaving our details and ...more...]]> 2 6 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 11:32:59 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 11:42:56 -0700 2008 I read a review stating the disappointing ending of the book, but frankly I felt hollowness throughout the whole book...more...]]> 2 3 false false Thu Apr 24 23:57:46 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 04 22:56:28 -0800 2008 Wed Apr 23 02:53:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Wed Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 16:24:01 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 18:20:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 17:10:05 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 11:25:26 -0700 2008
As slight as it is, this book seems to not only stumble over it's own plot, but it's own vague metaphysics which, in the end, seem to be suspect anyway....more...]]> 4 3 true false Sun Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 17:07:27 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 17:07:45 -0800 2008 The Feast of Love, you are probably prepared (read: greedily ready), to follow Nathaniel Mason for 209 pages of nothing more than early 1970s college life: drinking too much; spontaneous, aimless road tri...more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 12:08:25 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 07:57:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 09:55:18 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 10 06:13:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 14:03:38 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 16:57:32 -0800 2008 The Feast of Love, you are probably prepared (read: greedily ready), to follow Nathaniel Mason for 209 pages of nothing more than early 1970s college life: drinking too much; spontaneous, aimless road tri...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 21:31:51 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 21:41:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 12:01:28 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 13:33:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu Feb 05 09:55:45 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:55:45 -0800 2009 Charles Baxter's ability to play with his own identity consistently impresses reviewers. Author of the 2000 National Book Award finalist Feast of Love, he has proved adept as a novelist and short story writer, as well as an inventor of forms somewhere in between. The Soul Thief is one such example. ...

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I was captivated by this novel, for sure. It was good, but I need to talk about t...more...]]> 2 2 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jan 04 09:48:02 -0800 2008 Thu Oct 01 11:01:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 19:46:55 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 08:34:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 07:18:59 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 07:28:51 -0800 2009
I find that the idea that we all steal things from each others lives very interesting. And the concept of a ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 23 13:41:21 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 21:11:35 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 06 11:09:31 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 10 18:14:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jul 06 09:55:36 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 10:02:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1428572