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Humboldt's Gift
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1975
- Pages
- Pages 490
Von Humboldt Fleisher published a book of ballads in his twenties and America crowned him a genius; decades later he is found dead alone in a cheap hotel room, his greatness spent on rages, pills, and a paranoia no one could talk him out of. Charlie Citrine loved him first as an idol, then as a friend he could not save, and now, rich on a hit play and film deals of his own, he cannot stop asking what happened to the part of Humboldt's gift that never got used.
The book of ballads published by Von Humboldt Fleisher in the Thirties was an immediate hit.
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