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Humboldt's Gift
by Bellow, Saul
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0140041621
- ISBN 13
- 9780140041620
- Seller
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About This Item
Penguin Books, United Kingdom, 1976. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Size: 12mo Small. 475 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. With his uncanny wit and perception, Saul Bellow tells the story of Charlie Citrine, a young man whose life is reaching a critical moment. Over several years, Charlie's almost obsessive love of literature has led him into a deep friendship with the renowned poet Von Humboldt Fleisher, and when Humboldt dies, the young man's life rapidly begins to unravel. A stalling career and an ugly divorce feed Charlie's instability, and he engages in dubious friendships and an unwise liaison with the wrong woman. Amidst the chaos of a life in shambles, Charlie emerges by virtue of a legacy left by his departed companion, a legacy that offers him a glimpse of a new trajectory. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; United States; 1970s; ISBN: 0140041621. ISBN/EAN: 9780140041620. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7301. . 9780140041620
Synopsis
Humboldt's Gift is a novel by Saul Bellow that tells of the balance of art and power in an ever-increasingly materialistic America. The tale is shown through a semi-autobiographical account of Bellow's friendship with a poet, Delmore Schwartz. Humboldt's Gift won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and contributed to Bellow's winning the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7301
- Title
- Humboldt's Gift
- Author
- Bellow, Saul
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140041621
- ISBN 13
- 9780140041620
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- BZDB137 saul bellow, fiction, Fiction; United States; 1970s; ISBN: 0140041621 EAN: 9780140041620 Bellow, Saul Humboldt's Gift
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