The Soul Thief
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Pantheon; Pantheon Books
Published: February 12, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780375422522
Subjects: American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors +; Fiction; Fiction - General; Literary; Fiction / Literary; Buffalo (N.Y.); Graduate students
Description: During Nathaniel Mason's first few months as a graduate student in upstate New York, he 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 to have appropriated parts of Nathaniel's past that Nathaniel cannot remember having told him about. It is Jerome who seems to trigger the events that precipitate Nathaniel's total breakdown, and Jerome who shows up 30 years later--Nathaniel having finally reconstituted his life--to suggest, with the most staggering consequences, that Nathaniel's identity may in fact not be his own.--From publisher description.