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Pantheon
February 2008
On Sale: April 7, 2008
224 pages
ISBN: 0375422528
EAN: 9780375422522
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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.
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