The Soul Thief [Signed First Edition]
Language: English
Published by Pantheon Books, 2008
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
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First Edition, 1st printing. Signed by Charles Baxter on title page. [includes Author Trading Card for his event at Booksmith SF.] Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Fine condition. "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." [jacket copy] "Opening in gritty, nineteen-seventies Buffalo, Baxter's suspenseful fifth novel concerns a mild-mannered graduate student, Nathaniel, who falls under the spell of a cerebral but affected outsider, the aptly named Coolberg. Drawn to Coolberg's sneering persona (and to that of his girlfriend, Theresa, who relishes Coolberg's performances), Nathaniel begins to unravel when he learns that Coolberg is appropriating his identity: a burglar steals clothes from Nathaniel that Coolberg ends up wearing, and Coolberg begins claiming Nathaniel's history for his own. Baxter's talent for creating uncanny settings and telling details and his inventive way with language (a similarly dressed couple are "umbilicaled") are both on display here, but the conceptual twist at the novel's end feels unequal to the dramatic tension that precedes it."--The New Yorker. "Though a much trickier and more cerebral book than his previous novels, this is a dandy psychological thriller in which proliferating mirrors will make your head spin. Baxter has given us the writer's version of that famous M.C. Escher print in which one hand is drawing the other."--Minneapolis Star Tribune. Fine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in an intact NF jacket. Quite presentable.…
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- Title
- The Soul Thief [Signed First Edition]
- Author
- Charles Baxter
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0375422528
- ISBN 13
- 9780375422522
- Edition
- 1st Edition
During Nathaniel Masons 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. Theres 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 Nathaniels past that Nathaniel cannot remember having told him about. It is Jerome who seems to trigger the events that precipitate Nathaniels total breakdown, and Jerome who shows up 30 years later--Nathaniel having finally reconstituted his life--to suggest, with the most staggering consequences, that Nathaniels 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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