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Humboldt's gift / Saul Bellow ; introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides.
- Title
- Humboldt's gift / Saul Bellow ; introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides.
- Author
- Bellow, Saul
- Publication
- New York : Penguin Books, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3503.E4488 H8 2008 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Eugenides, Jeffrey
- Description
- xvi, 494 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Penguin classics
- Uniform Title
- Penguin classics
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction
- Fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Fame and politics in the 1960s -- "All my ladies seem furious" -- Bad behavior -- A better man -- Distraction/divorce/anthroposophy -- The "Chicago book" and The Dean's December -- Nadir -- Janis Freedman/Allan Bloom/politics -- To seventy-five -- Papuans and Zulus -- Intensive care -- Ravelstein -- Love and strife.
- ISBN
- 9780143105473
- 0143105477
- LCCN
- ^^2008034274
- OCLC
- 223803287
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library