Biography - Baxter, Charles (Morley) (1947-): An article ...
 Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 16 Publication Date: 2004-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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A Relative Stranger: Stories
Dirty Realism Minus The Dirt: I think it was Raymond Carver who was touted as being one of the writers responsible for "reviving" the lost art of the short story. Carver was an astonishing writer, an author capable of throwing his two cents in [... more]
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The Feast of Love (Vintage Contemporaries)
Amazon.com Review: 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 [... more]
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Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
Amazon.com Review: 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 [... more]
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The Soul Thief: A Novel
Soul Thief? Time Thief is more like it.: This book was a waste of my time. I ended with a shake of my head and an audible, NO. The characters were bland. Confusing. Who? What? Huh? It was a mystery? I didn't get that, either. Not having experienced the [... more]
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Saul and Patsy
Amazon.com Review: Poor Charles Baxter, doomed to be forever thought of as a writer's writer. The languidly plotted Saul and Patsy hardly promises to be his long-awaited breakout novel. It's just too quiet. But for those of us who fervently admire Baxter' [... more]
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The Soul Thief (Vintage Contemporaries)
Soul Thief? Time Thief is more like it.: This book was a waste of my time. I ended with a shake of my head and an audible, NO. The characters were bland. Confusing. Who? What? Huh? It was a mystery? I didn't get that, either. Not having experienced the [... more]
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The Feast of Love
Amazon.com Review: 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 [... more]
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The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot (Art of...)
A Different Twist: Baxter offers a beautifully written, unique perspective on a topic (subtext) that is rarely covered effectively in writing guides. His book reads like an extended essay and provides concrete examples of the various aspects of subtext. [... more]
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A Relative Stranger (Contemporary American Fiction)
Dirty Realism Minus The Dirt: I think it was Raymond Carver who was touted as being one of the writers responsible for "reviving" the lost art of the short story. Carver was an astonishing writer, an author capable of throwing his two cents in [... more]
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First Light
Beautifully told family drama: Baxter begins this book with a glimpse into the life of a family in a state of static malaise. Rather than take the story forward he begins drifting backward in time, layering in incidents and moments that start to explain [... more]
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Believers: A novella and stories
Amazon.com Review: 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 [... more]
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