First Light

Name: First Light
Author: Charles Baxter

by Charles Baxter

Man confronts ambition, mortality, and unexpected grace in midlife reckoning

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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.

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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