- Published: 10 December 2007
- ISBN: 9780141188768
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 496
- RRP: $35.00
Humboldt's Gift
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- Published: 10 December 2007
- ISBN: 9780141188768
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 496
- RRP: $35.00
Bellow at his best ... funny, vibrant, ironic, self-mocking and wise
San Francisco Examiner
There was something about Humboldt's Gift - the sheer ecstatic pleasure of the writing, the intensity of the imagery, the entrancing ability to combine high comedy with deeply serious intellectual ideas, the astonishing talent for describing faces, the warm affection for Chicago characters - which excited me almost beyond endurance
Justin Cartwright, New Statesman
It has always been on the cards that Saul Bellow would write The Great American Novel. With Humboldt's Gift, I think that he has achieved this.
David Holloway, Telegraph