num_pages: 352
description: Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator of More Die of Heartbreak , has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described "plant visionary." While his studies take him around the world, Benn, a restless spirit, has not been able to satisfy his longings after his first marriage and lives from affair to affair and from "bliss to breakdown." Imagining that a settled existence will end his anguish, Benn ties the knot again, opening the door to a flood of new torments. As Kenneth grapples with his own problems involving his unusual lady-friend Treckie, the two men try to figure out why gifted and intelligent people invariably find themselves "knee-deep in the garbage of a personal life." 
language: English
title: More Die of Heartbreak
titlecomplete: More Die of Heartbreak
genres: 20th Century, American, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction, Relationships
ratings_count: 1467
publisher: Penguin Classics