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Humboldt's Gift |
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| Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 512 pages | ISBN 9780143105473 | 28 Oct 2008 | Penguin Classic | Adult |
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Two twentieth-century literary masterpieces from the Nobel Prize winner
Saul Bellow’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel explores the long friendship between Charlie Citrine, a young man with an intense passion for literature, and the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie’s life is falling apart: 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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MYSTERY & SUSPENSE
Interred with Their Bones
Jennifer Lee Carrell
In our Mystery & Suspense special interest area, read a Q&A with Jennifer Lee Carrell, author of the Shakespeare-inspired thriller, Interred with Their Bones.
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