Charles Baxter

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The Soul Thief

Charles Baxter

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 unav...

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Published: Feb 2009

A Relative Stranger: Stories

Charles Baxter

Without question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award finalist, is one of our finest contemporary writers. These two books, set in the Michigan landscape that Baxter has made his own, displ...

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Published: Sep 2001

Believers: A novella and stories

Charles Baxter

What a marvelous writer Charles Baxter is. His prose is luminous, his imagery surprising, and the stories he tells are bottomless in their depth. Readers who have not already had the good fortune to make this writer's acquaintance in...

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Published: Sep 1998

Saul and Patsy

Charles Baxter

Five Oaks, Michigan is not exactly where Saul and Patsy meant to end up. Both from the East Coast, they met in college, fell in love, and settled down to married life in the Midwest. Saul is Jewish and a compulsively inventive worrier...

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Published: Jan 2005

The Feast of Love

Charles Baxter

The plot of Baxter's novel consists of scandalous tales supposedly told to the author by his neighbors--all of whom seem to be involved in sexual imbroglios that intertwine and enrich each other in the telling. A New York Times Notabl...

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Published: May 2001

First Light

Charles Baxter

Hugh Welch has cared for his little sister Dorsey ever since they were children, when Dorsey looked at him as though he were a god. But when Dorsey returns to their small Michigan hometown with a successful career as an astrophysicist...

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Published: Jan 2012

Gryphon: New and Selected Stories

Charles Baxter

Ever since the publication of his first story collection in 1984, Charles Baxter has slowly gained a reputation as one of America's finest short story writers. Gryphon brings together sixteen classics with seven new stories, giving us...

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Published: Jan 2012

Shadow Play

Charles Baxter

Without question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award finalist, is one of our finest contemporary writers. These two books, set in the Michigan landscape that Baxter has made his own, displ...

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Published: Sep 2001

There's Something I Want You to Do: S...

Charles Baxter

"There's something I want you to do." This request—sometimes simple, sometimes not—forms the basis for the ten interrelated stories that comprise this latest penetrating and prophetic collection from an author who has b...

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Published: Feb 2016

Through the Safety Net: stories

Charles Baxter

Baxter dives into the undercurrents of middle-class American life in these eleven arresting, often mesmerizing stories. Whether they know it or not, Baxters characters are floating above an abyss of unruly desire, inexplicable dread, ...

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Published: Sep 1998
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