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  | | The Sun Collective A Novel by Charles Baxter 336 Pages, Published 2020 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-4885-2, ISBN: 1-5247-4885-4 "A send-up of modern American society and the specters of its consumerism, fanaticism, and fear that haunt it, The Sun Collective captures both the mystery and violence that punctuate our daily lives"--" |
 | | Gryphon(Reprint) New and Selected Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Charles Baxter Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2012 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-73952-0, ISBN: 0-307-73952-X "A New York Times Notable Book"A warmly disposed yet unsentimental chronicler of American lives.... Some [stories are] poignant and disturbing, and all of them highly readable." --The New York Times Book Review"One of our best storytellers." --San Francisco Chronicle"Baxter lovingly teases anguish, humor, and heart-rending beauty out of clear, unaffected sentences." --The Washington PostSince the publication of his first story collection ..." |
 | | First Light(Reprint) (Vintage Contemporaries) by Charles Baxter Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2012 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-94851-9, ISBN: 0-307-94851-X "In a novel of extraordinary resonance and power, Charles Baxter takes us backward through the lives of Hugh and Dorsey Welch, a brother and sister born and raised in a small Michigan town. We meet them as adults - Dorsey, an eminent astrophysicist, Hugh a quiet unassuming Buick salesman in their hometown - and discover their pasts: difficult marriages, dark and destructive love affairs, moments of triumph, of disappointment, of sheer jo ..." |
 | | The Soul Thief(Reprint) (Vintage Contemporaries) by Charles Baxter Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2009 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3440-6, ISBN: 1-4000-3440-X ""Delicious.... Entirely original.... So craftily construcyed that to appreciate how liberally Baxter plants creepy hints of what's to come a reader should really savor this book twice." -- The Washington Post Book WorldIn this extraordinary novel of mischief and menace, we see a young man's very self vanishing before his eyes. As a graduate student in upstate New York, Nathaniel Mason is drawn into a tangle of relationships with people ..." |
 | | Burning Down the House(2nd Edition) Essays on Fiction by Charles Baxter Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2008 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-508-1, ISBN: 1-55597-508-9 "For fiction lovers, history and social commentary on the genre is a thought-provoking addition to reading. Novelist Charles Baxter's essays on contemporary fiction dissect the connections between life, values, and art with unerring and insightful precision. Baxter compares the dysfunction in contemporary fiction to the removal of the villain from politics. He decries the prostituting of epiphany as a commercial product that turns fictio ..." |
 | | The Art of Subtext Beyond Plot by Charles Baxter Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2007 by Graywolf Press Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-473-2, ISBN: 1-55597-473-2 "Charles Baxter inaugurates "The Art of," a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book "Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction."Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter's "The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot "discusses and illustrates the hidden subtextual overtones and undertones in fictional works haunted by the unspoken, the suppressed, and the secreted. Using an array of examp ..." |
 | | The Feast of Love(1st Edition) A Novel by Charles Baxter, Norah Lofts Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 2001 by Vintage Books ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70910-4, ISBN: 0-375-70910-X "Among literary cognoscenti, Charles Baxter has a well-deserved reputation as one of America's finest writers. Best known for his short stories, Baxter has also produced three novels. His fourth, The Feast of Love, combines the best of both genres--with a light dusting of metafiction to sweeten the dish. The book begins with Baxter himself waking from a nightmare and going for a moonlit walk through his hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan. ..." |
 | | Through the Safety Net(1st Edition) stories by Charles Baxter Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1998 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-77649-9, ISBN: 0-679-77649-4 "Read one paragraph of a Charles Baxter story, and you know you're in the hands of a master. Consider, for example, the opening line of "Winter Journey": "Harrelson, perpetual Ph.D. student, poverty-stricken dissertation nonfinisher, academic man of all work, gourmand, stands in the tiny kitchen cluttered with yellow note pads, a basketball, books, misplaced bookmarks, and boxes of ant killer, staring down at a dented saucepan of cold so ..." |
 | | Believers(97th Edition) A Novella and Stories by Charles Baxter Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1998 by Vintage Books ISBN-13: 978-0-679-77653-6, ISBN: 0-679-77653-2 "Many critics have sought to describe Charles Baxter's unparalleled gift for revealing the unexpected in the ordinary, for capturing the fleeting moments that indelibly define a life, for articulating the moral and emotional quandaries that can besiege us as we balance love and responsibility. All these hallmarks of Baxter's work are on brilliant display in "Believers," his fourth collection of short fiction. In 'Reincarnation, ' the las ..." |
 | | The Soul Thief(1st Edition) A Novel by Charles Baxter Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2008 by Pantheon Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-42252-2, ISBN: 0-375-42252-8 "Here is an extraordinary new novel from one of our most admired and acclaimed writers, a creator of "stunning, never predictable, glimmering fiction, full of mischief and insight” (Los Angeles Times). 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 f ..." |
 | | The Feast of Love(Reprint) by Charles Baxter Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2007 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-38727-1, ISBN: 0-307-38727-5 "... of event and emotion that shape the lives of a young married couple. ssssssssss Charles Baxter SAUL and PATSY A Novel ISBN: 0-375-41029-5 * $24.00 ( Can. ..." |
 | | Saul and Patsy(Reprint) by Charles Baxter Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2005 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70916-6, ISBN: 0-375-70916-9 "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; Patsy is gentile and cheerfully pragmatic. On Saul’s initiative (and to his continual dismay) they have moved to this small town–a place so devoid of irony as to be virtually “a museum of earlier American ..." |
 | | The Feast of Love(1st Edition) by Charles Baxter, Johanna Roebas Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2000 by Pantheon Books / A Division Of Random House, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-375-41019-2, ISBN: 0-375-41019-8 "Here is a superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people. In a re-imagined Midsummer Night's Dream, men and women speak of and desire their ideal mates; parents seek out their lost children; adult children try to come to terms with their own parents and, in some cases, find new ones." |
 | | Harmony of the World(1st Edition) Stories by Charles Baxter Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1997 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-77651-2, ISBN: 0-679-77651-6 "In these ten stories, Charles Baxter shows his genius in making his characters' everyday sufferings--and occasional fragile joys--seem utterly unprecedented, even as he reminds us, gently and with a sly comic twist, that everything they feel is only the collateral damage of being human. Whether he is writing about the players in a rickety bisexual love triangle or a woman visiting her husband in a nursing home, probing the psychic mains ..." |
 | | First Light(Reprint) (Contemporary American Fiction) by Charles Baxter Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1988 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-010091-4, ISBN: 0-14-010091-1 "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 and a happy family life, Hugh, who has a long habit of worrying about his sister, realizes that it’s his own life he has to cure, not Dorsey’s. As they explore their complicated history over one hot Fourth ..." |
 | | Through the Safety Net(1st Edition) Stories by Charles Baxter Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 1985 by Viking Adult ISBN-13: 978-0-670-80477-1, ISBN: 0-670-80477-0 "Baxter dives into the undercurrents of middle-class American life in these eleven arresting, often mesmerizing stories. Whether they know it or not, Baxter's characters are floating above an abyss of unruly desire, inexplicable dread, unforeseen tragedy, and sudden moments of grace.A drunken graduate student hurtles cheerfully through a snowstorm to rescue a fiancee who no longer wants him. A hospital maintenance worker makes a perverse ..." |
 | | Bringing the Devil to His Knees(Updated) The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life by Charles Baxter, Peter Turchi, Baxter/Turchi Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-06774-9, ISBN: 0-472-06774-5 "In "Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life, "seventeen award-winning writers--all expert teachers--share the secrets of creating compelling, imaginative stories and novels. A combination handbook, writer's companion, and collection of spirited personal essays, the book is filled with specific examples, hard-won wisdom, and compassionate guidance for the developing or experienced fiction writer.Each of ..." |
 | | There's Something I Want You to Do(Reprint) Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Charles Baxter Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2016 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-8041-7273-8, ISBN: 0-8041-7273-0 "“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 been repeatedly praised as a master of the form. As we follow a diverse group of Minnesota citizens, each grappling with their own heightened fears, responsibilities, and obsessions, Baxter unveils the remarkable in what m ..." |
 | | Saul and Patsy(1st Edition) A Novel by Charles Baxter Hardcover, 317 Pages, Published 2003 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-375-41029-1, ISBN: 0-375-41029-5 "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; Patsy is gentile and cheerfully pragmatic. On Saul’s initiative (and to his continual dismay) they have moved to this small town–a place so devoid of irony as to be virtually “a museum of earlier American ..." |
 | | A Relative Stranger(1st Edition) Stories (Norton Paperback) by Charles Baxter Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2001 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32220-0, ISBN: 0-393-32220-3 ""In his quiet cosmic wonderment, Baxter is the equal of John Updike and Anne Tyler at their largest and best."―GQ 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, display his unparalleled gift for revealing the unexpected in everyday life. The often-curious co ..." |
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