Humboldt's Gift

Two twentiethcentury literary masterpieces from the Nobel Prize winner SaulBellowas Pulitzer Prizeawinning novel explores the long friendship betweenCharlie Cit... » 

Two twentiethcentury literary masterpieces from the Nobel Prize winner SaulBellowas Pulitzer Prizeawinning novel explores the long friendship betweenCharlie Citrine a young man with an intense passion for literature and thegreat poet Von Humboldt Fleisher. At the time of his death however Humboldtis a failure and Charlieas life is falling apart his career is at astandstill and heas enmeshed in an acrimonious divorce infatuated with ahighly unsuitable young woman and involved with a neurotic mafioso. And thenHumboldt acts from beyond the grave bestowing upon Charlie an unexpectedlegacy that may just help him turn his life around. «