The Soul Thief

Name: The Soul Thief
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Charles Baxter
ISBN: 9781436117241

Author: Charles Baxter

Narrator: Jefferson Mays

Unabridged: 6 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/03/2008

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Renee

The first half of the novel follows the brief arc of Nathaniel Mason's graduate career in 1970s Buffalo, N.Y., which centers on his two girl friends and a man named Jerome Coolberg, a virtuoso of cast-off ideas. Coolberg, obsessed with Nathaniel, begins taking his shirts and notebooks, and claiming......more

Goodreads review by Blair

(3.5) I found The Soul Thief via a recommendation on another book site, and – having never heard of it, or the author, before – was drawn in by the premise. A group of graduate students in New York state, a tangled web of relationships, a ‘mysterious and compelling’ figure at the centre of it all.........more

Goodreads review by Michael

Quite disappointing. This whole novel (perhaps more a novella) essentially breaks down to a story of one man screwing with another man's life, ostensibly to teach a lesson about identity. Fine, OK, it's not a hopeless premise, but Baxter fails to follow through, providing the readers only with undev......more