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The soul thief / Charles Baxter

By:

Baxter, Charles, 1947-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Pantheon Books , c2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: 210 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780375422522

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

FIC BAX

LOC classification:

PS3552.A854 S68 2008

Summary: Nathaniel Mason is a graduate student in early 1970s Buffalo. At a beer party one autumn night, he meets the mysterious Jerome Coolberg, "a virtuoso of cast-off ideas." Coolberg quickly becomes obsessed with Mason, going so far as to steal his notebooks, his clothes, his girlfriend, and, finally, his memories and identity. But what exactly is Mason's identity? In Baxter's (The Feast of Love) view, everyone in Buffalo's student ghetto is a poseur, trying on different identities as though they were a change of clothes. Several decades on, in the book's second half, Mason is living a colorless existence in the Midwest, while Coolberg has transformed himself into a National Public Radio star who encourages people to narrate personal stories on the air. In a surprise ending, we learn that Coolberg played a much bigger role in Mason's life than we'd originally been led to believe.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC BAX (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Material retirado/oculto del Opac		022495

Nathaniel Mason is a graduate student in early 1970s Buffalo. At a beer party one autumn night, he meets the mysterious Jerome Coolberg, "a virtuoso of cast-off ideas." Coolberg quickly becomes obsessed with Mason, going so far as to steal his notebooks, his clothes, his girlfriend, and, finally, his memories and identity. But what exactly is Mason's identity? In Baxter's (The Feast of Love) view, everyone in Buffalo's student ghetto is a poseur, trying on different identities as though they were a change of clothes. Several decades on, in the book's second half, Mason is living a colorless existence in the Midwest, while Coolberg has transformed himself into a National Public Radio star who encourages people to narrate personal stories on the air. In a surprise ending, we learn that Coolberg played a much bigger role in Mason's life than we'd originally been led to believe.

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