The Soul Thief (Vintage Contemporaries)
As a graduate student in upstate New York, Nathaniel Mason 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...
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As a graduate student in upstate New York, Nathaniel Mason 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 also to have appropriated parts of Nathaniel's past that Nathaniel cannot remember having told him about. In this extraordinary novel of mischief and menace, we see a young man's very self vanishing before his eyes.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781400034406 (140003440X)
Publish date: February 10th 2009
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
I have to say, I really do love Baxter's work. There's a delicate, poetic quality to the prose, and I underline often things that may not actually be as profound as they seem but are beautiful and worthwhile nonetheless.
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