Charles Baxter
Charles Baxter is a Minnesota novelist and story writer whose fiction of Midwestern life is among the most emotionally intelligent in contemporary American literature. Saul and Patsy and The Feast of Love are his major novels.
Works
- Shadow PlayMan's identity unravels as hidden aspects of himself emerge from his own unconscious
- The Feast of LoveFour middle-aged friends navigate love, betrayal, and human connection over one summer
- Saul and PatsyCouple's marriage tested by desire, betrayal, and the complexity of human love
- Burning Down the HouseFamily's quiet destruction unfolds through secrets and internal emotional combustion
- First LightMan confronts ambition, mortality, and unexpected grace in midlife reckoning