SYNOPSIS: 487 pages. "For years, they were the best of friends: the grand, erratic Humboldt and the ambitious young Charlie. But now 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: he has left Charlie something in his will." BONUS: Pasted-in news article from Stockholm, Sweden AP re: Bellow's receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Publisher: The Viking Press, New York. 1975. Gutter code MP6E.
Format: Hardback. No dust jacket. NOT an ex lib.
Condition: GOOD. Purple tweed cloth boards, yellow spine wrap, black lettering. Scratches to front cover. Name written on inside front flyleaf opposite pasted-in article. Has occasional highlighting, underlining, and margin notes, no text obliterated. Inserted notes (included), book may have been used as a textbook for lit. class? Photos illustrate condition of overall volume. Very solidly bound.
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