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attribution, passages from Joseph Stefano’s script for Psycho, along with other passages from the novels of E. M. Forster. The quotations from Gertrude Stein are largely paraphrases of her portrait of Matisse. The translation into English of Kleist’s The Marquise of O—— is by David Luke and Nigel Reeves.

For certain details about Los Angeles flora and fauna I am grateful to Francesca Delbanco and Arden Reed. My grateful thanks also to Michael Collier and Louise Glück. The story of Simple Shmerel is derived from The Adventures of Simple Shmerel as told by Solomon Simon. My thanks to Carl Dennis for bringing these stories to my attention.

As always, thanks to Liz Darhansoff, Carol Houck Smith, Dan Frank, and Martha and Daniel Baxter.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Charles Baxter is the author of eight other works of fiction, including Believers, Harmony of the World, and Through the Safety Net. The Feast of Love was a finalist for the National Book Award. He teaches at the University of Minnesota.

ALSO BY CHARLES BAXTER

FICTION

Saul and Patsy

The Feast of Love

Believers

Shadow Play

A Relative Stranger

First Light

Through the Safety Net

Harmony of the World

POETRY

Imaginary Paintings

ESSAYS

Beyond Plot

Burning Down the House

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2008 by Charles Baxter

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: George Braziller, Inc.: Excerpt from “Golden State” from Golden State by Frank Bidart (New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1973). Reprinted by permission of George Braziller, Inc. Oxford University Press: Excerpt from “The Census-Takers” from Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Baxter, Charles, [date]

The soul thief / Charles Baxter.

p. cm.

1. Graduate students—Fiction. 2. Buffalo (N.Y.)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3552.A854S68 2007

813'.54—dc22

2007018119

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