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008			080513s2008 nyu 000 1 eng
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050	0	0	_aPS3552.A854 _bS68 2008
082	0	0	_aFIC BAX
100	1		_aBaxter, Charles, 1947-
245	1	4	_aThe soul thief _c/ Charles Baxter
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Pantheon Books _c, c2008.
300			_a210 p. _c; 23 cm.
520			_aNathaniel 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.
650		0	_aGraduate students _x--Fiction
651		0	_aBuffalo (N.Y.) _x--Fiction
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