Humboldt's Gift

Name: Humboldt's Gift
Author: Saul Bellow
ISBN: 9780141188768

Saul Bellow

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Humboldt's Gift

Saul Bellow

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#235 of 8,085 books · #116 in Fiction

Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1976). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

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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