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內容簡介: |
Two twentieth-century literary masterpieces from the Nobel
Prize winner Saul Bellowas Pulitzer Prizeawinning novel explores
the long friendship between Charlie Citrine, a young man with an
intense passion for literature, and the great poet Von Humboldt
Fleisher. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure,
and Charlieas life is falling apart: his career is at a standstill,
and heas 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.
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Saul Bellow''s dazzling career as a novelist has been marked
with numerous literary prizes, including the 1976 Nobel Prize, and
the Gold Medal for the Novel. His other books include Dangling Man,
The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, More Die of Heartbreak,
Mosby''s Memoirs and Other Stories, Mr Sammler''s Planet, Seize The
Day and The Victim. Saul Bellow died in 2005.
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