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Humboldt's Gift [electronic resource] / Saul Bellow.

Bellow, Saul, (author.). Hurt, Christopher, (reader.). hoopla digital. (Added Author). Read by Christopher Hurt. (Cast).

Summary:

For years, they were the best of friends: Humboldt, a grand, erratic figure, and Charlie, a young man of frenzied and noble longings. But by the 1970s, Humboldt has died a failure, and Charlie's success-ridden life has taken various turns for the worse. Then Humboldt acts from the grave to change Charlie's life by leaving him something in his will. Now Charlie is middle-aged and his days are cluttered with comic absurdities. A thinker, he longs to come from left field and knock them all dead. But his ex-wife has him enmeshed in lawsuits; he is held in thrall by a sexually-beguiling but unsuitable young woman; he has fallen into the hands of a neurotic mafioso; and his career seems to have ground to a halt. How the gentle but resilient Charlie comes to know how to triumph over his ever more ridiculous tribulations is the great discovery of Humboldt's Gift.

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Record details

  • ISBN: 9781624607073
  • ISBN: 1624607071
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (18hr., 06 min.)) : digital.
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: [United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2007.
  • Distributor: Made available through hoopla

Content descriptions

Restrictions on Access Note:
Flex title available through hoopla.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Christopher Hurt.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Genre:
Fiction.

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