The Adventures of Augie March

by Bellow, Saul
ISBN: 9780143039570
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"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.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Bellow, Saul
  • ISBN: 9780143039570
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.36 x 1.15
  • Number Of Pages: 566
  • Publication Year: 2006

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  • An exuberant, quintessentially American masterpiece from Bellow.

    Joseph D. - 7 years 9 months ago

    The Adventures of Augie March, I'm happy to report, is a novel every bit as good as everyone says it is. Augie is the kind of masterpiece that is available to all readers, free of unnecessary difficulty or self-seriousness. Though Augie is a big, serious book of grand ambition, to call it stately or ornate would be to misrepresent it completely. Augie's journey across the American landscape is suffused with excitement and kinetic energy. Augie emerges from his childhood in Chicago to traverse the American landscape and examine the American psyche. And Bellow, perhaps better than anyone else ever has, writes in the full wonder of the American language. He makes no attempts at stately, classical prose, instead electing to give full voice to the stitched-together, idiom-laden vernacular of the 20th century United States. Reading it now, one marvels at how much Augie's world resembles our own, how much like Augie we all are. The novel, like Augie himself, and like the nation he and Bellow love so dearly, is indefatigable. The book proves, on nearly every page, that complex artistry and serious fun are not mutually exclusive.

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