

The Soul Thief
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
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
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
(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
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