Humboldt's Gift

Humboldt's Gift
ISBN-10
0141188766
ISBN-13
9780141188768
Category
Friendship
Pages
496
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Author
Saul Bellow

Description

For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie's life has reached a low point- his career is at a standstill, and he's enmeshed in an acrimonious divorce, infatuated with a highly unsuitable young woman and involved with a neurotic mafioso. And then Humboldt acts from beyond the grave, bestowing upon Charlie an unexpected legacy that may just help him turn his life around.

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