Humboldt's gift
By: Saul Bellow ; introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides.
Contributors: Eugenides, Jeffrey.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780143105473
Subjects: Authors -- Fiction; Poets -- Fiction; Friendship -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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.