The Soul Thief: A Novel

By Charles Baxter

In this extraordinary novel of mischief and menace, we see a young man's very self vanishing before his eyes—from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune)

"Entirely original.... So craftily construcyed that to appreciate how liberally Baxter plants creepy hints of what's to come a reader should really savor this book twice." —The Washington Post

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. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Feb 12, 2008
• ISBN: 9780307377098

Charles Baxter

Charles Baxter lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and teaches at the University of Michigan. He is the author of six previous works of fiction, including ‘Believers, Harmony of the World’ and ‘Through the Safety Net’. ‘The Feast of Love’, published by Fourth Estate in 2001, was shortlisted for the National Book Award.