The title object of this novel is a (*) scenario for the film Caldofreddo to which its author earns the copyright by mailing it to himself eight years in the future.
The Penguin Classics cover of this novel features the silhouette of a city skyline dissolving into text from a passage declaring its title character to be "a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust." At a stoplight, a woman in this novel jumps out of her car and into a ditch to avoid being run over by her jealous husband. A character in this novel takes a baseball bat to the protagonist's Mercedes-Benz to compel payment of a poker debt, most of which he then tosses off the top of a skyscraper. The title object of this novel is a (*) scenario for the film Caldofreddo to which its author earns the copyright by mailing it to himself eight years in the future. The protagonist of this novel refuses to marry his girlfriend Renata and is bullied into friendship by the gangster Rinaldo Cantabile. For 10 points, name this novel about Charlie Citrine's bond with the title stand-in for Delmore Schwartz, which won a Pulitzer for its author Saul Bellow.
The Penguin Classics cover of this novel features the silhouette of a city skyline dissolving into text from a passage declaring its title character to be "a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust.
Humboldt’s Gift