The Adventures of Augie March
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- Paperback
592 pages
- Release Date
27 June 2001
Summary
“The Adventures of Augie March is the Great American Novel. Search no further” - Martin Amis
Augie March is a penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression. A ‘born recruit’, he drifts through life latching onto a wild succession of occupations, including butler, thief, dog-washer, sailor and salesman, then proudly rejects each one as too limiting. Not until he tangles with the glamorous Thea, a huntress with a trained eagle, can he attempt to break free.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141184869 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141184868 |
| Author: | Saul Bellow, Christopher Hitchens |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Edition: | 01000th |
| Release Date: | 27 June 2001 |
| Weight: | 411g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Astonishingly and tremendously entertaining – The New York TimesA rollicking, perplexing, astounding whopper of a picaresque novel * Chicago Sunday Times *Funny, poignant … it is Bellow’s fat comic masterpiece * Augie March *The great novel of the young person * Harper’s *
About The Author
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow was born in 1915 to Russian emigre parents. He published his first novel, The Dangling Man, in 1944; this was followed, in 1947, by The Victim. In 1948 a Guggenheim Fellowship enabled Bellow to travel to Paris, where he wrote The Adventures of Augie March, published in 1953. Henderson The Rain King (1959) brought Bellow worldwide fame, and in 1964, his best-known novel, Herzog, was published and immediately lauded as a masterpiece, ‘a well-nigh faultless novel’ (New Yorker).
Saul Bellow’s dazzling career as a novelist was celebrated during his lifetime with an unprecedented array of literary prizes and awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book Awards, and the Gold Medal for the Novel. In 1976 he was awarded a Nobel Prize ‘for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work’.
Bellow’s death in 2005 was met with tribute from writers and critics around the world, including James Wood, who praised ‘the beauty of this writing, its music, its high lyricism, its firm but luxurious pleasure in language itself’.
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