Humboldt's Gift (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) - Softcover

Bellow, Saul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140189440 ISBN 13: 9780140189445

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1996

Synopsis

Charlie Citrine, suffering from steadily worsening troubles with women, career, and life, receives unexpected aid in the form of a belated bequest from his onetime friend and mentor, the poet Von Humboldt Fleisher.

About this title

About the Author:

SAUL BELLOW's dazzling career as a novelist has been marked with numerous literary prizes, including the 1976 Nobel Prize, and the Gold Medal for the Novel. His other books in the Twentieth-Century Classics series include Dangling Man, The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, More Die of Heartbreak, Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Seize The Day and The Victim.

From AudioFile:

Bellow's best-seller is the story of the relationship between Charles Citrine, a best-selling author, and his friend Von Humboldt Fleisher, a failed poet. It is not one of Bellow's greatest efforts, but was well-received when published almost twenty years ago. This production is exceedingly well-narrated by Christopher Hurt, whose narrator's voice conveys the various moods of the main character, Charles Citrine, an aging Lothario, battling the aging process and his writer's block. Some production flaws mar the presentation but can't overshadow the fine quality of the narrator's interpretation. E.F. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140189440
• ISBN 13: 9780140189445
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496