The Adventures of Augie March

The Adventures of Augie March - Paperback

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The Adventures of Augie March - Paperback

The Adventures of Augie March - Paperback

by Saul Bellow
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Book Overview

Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow's greatest novel

Winner of the 1954 National Book Award

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

"The Adventures of Augie March is the Great American Novel. Search no further." --Martin Amis

A Penguin Classic

As soon as it first appeared in 1953, this novel by the great Saul Bellow was hailed as an American classic. Augie, the exuberant narrator-hero, is a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Deptression. A "born recruit," Augie makes himself available for a series of occupations, then proudly rejects each one as unworthy. His own oddity is reflected in the companions he encounters--plungers, schemers, risk-takers, and "hole-and corner" operators like the would-be tycoon Einhorn or the would-be siren Thea, who travels with an eagle trained to hunt small creatures. This Penguin Classics edition, with an introduction by celebrated writer and critic Christopher Hitchens, makes a literary masterpiece available to a new generation of readers.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
ISBN9780143039570
Author Saul Bellow
PublisherPenguin Classics
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2006
LanguageENG- English
Pages608
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow was praised for his vision, his ear for detail, his humor, and the masterful artistry of his prose. Born of Russian Jewish parents in Lachine, Quebec in 1915, he was raised in Chicago. He received his Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1937, with honors in sociology and anthropology, and did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin. During the Second World War he served in the Merchant Marines.

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