More Die of Heartbreak

✍ Scribed by Amis, Martin;Bellow, Saul

• Book ID: 100531284
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 255 KB
• Series: Penguin modern classics
• Category: Fiction
• City: London
• ISBN: 0141913770

✦ Synopsis

Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator of More Die ofHeartbreak, has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to benear his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described "plant visionary." While his studies take him around the world, Benn, a restless spirit, has not been able to satisfy his longings after his first marriage and lives from affair to affair and from "bliss to breakdown." Imagining that a settled existence will end his anguish, Benn ties the knot again, opening the door to a flood of new torments. As Kenneth grapples with his own problems involving his unusual lady-friend Treckie, the two men try to figure out why gifted and intelligent people invariably find themselves "knee-deep in the garbage of a personal life."

✦ Subjects

Uncles -- Fiction