Humboldt's gift
Record details
- ISBN: 9781433281389 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1433281384 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: Ashland : Blackstone Audio, 2007.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 18:05:46. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Christopher Hurt. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 260067 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Friendship -- Fiction Poets -- Fiction |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
For many years, Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charles Citrine were the best of friends--Humboldt a grand erratic figure; Charlie a young man of frenzied and noble longings. But by the 1970s, Humboldt has died a failure in New York and Charlie's success-ridden life in Chicago has taken various turns for the worse. Then Humboldt acts from the grave to change Charlie's life--he leaves Charlie a bequest in his will. Now, Charlie is middle-aged and a bit shaky and it is high time that his life came to something. His days are cluttered with comic absurdities and his destiny seems obscured. Himself a thinker, he longs to come from left field and knock them all dead, to make intellectuals as clearly superfluous as they seem to him to be. But his ex-wife has him enmeshed in law suits; he is held in thrall by the young, sexually-beguiling but expensive and unsuitable Renata; he has fallen into the hands of a neurotic Mafioso named Rinaldo Cantabile; and his career seems to have ground to a halt.