She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car.
At once harsh and tender, expansive and acutely funny, this is the story of an elderly and self-destructive dipsomaniac in a Western desert town, who finds herself faced with a final, impossible choice.
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For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie`s life has reached a low point: his career is at a standstill, and he`s 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.
Ofiara (1947) - jedna z pierwszych powieści Saula Bellowa, autora tak wybitnych książek, jak Herzog, Przypadki Augiego Marcha czy Dar Humbolta - stanowi ważny etap w pisarskim rozwoju noblisty z 1976 roku.
Bohaterem powieści jest nowojorski Żyd Asa Leventhal. Jego żona wyjeżdża na kilka tygodni do matki, on zaś pozostaje sam na sam z upalnym miejskim latem i koszmarem, który niesie ze sobą nagłe pojawienie się dawnego znajomego. Obaj brali kiedyś udział w pewnym przyjęciu, podczas którego ów człowiek pozwolił sobie na antysemickie uwagi pod adresem przyjaciela Asy. A teraz, po latach, to on obwinia Leventhala o zrujnowanie mu życia i staje się jego prześladowcą.
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