Humboldt's gift
By: Saul Bellow.
Publisher: Viking Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 487
Copyright date: 1975
First sentence: The book of ballads published by Von Humboldt Fleisher in the Thirties was an immediate hit.
Description: Charlie Citrine, suffering from steadily worsening troubles with women, career, and life in general, receives unexpected aid and comfort in the form of a belated bequest from his onetime friend and mentor, the poet Von Humboldt Fleisher.