Humboldt's Gift

Description:

For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie's life has reached a low point: 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.

subjects: Poets,  Legacies,  Fiction in English,  Fiction,  Authors,  American Poets,  Friendship,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Friendship, fiction,  Authors, fiction,  Poets, American,  History,  Fiction, general

Places: United States