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The adventures of Augie March

Saul Bellow

  • 536 pages · about 9 hours
  • First published 1953
  • 27 editions
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1 About this book

The Adventures of Augie March is a picaresque novel by Saul Bellow, published in 1953 by Viking Press. It features the eponymous Augie March, who grows up during the Great Depression, and it is an example of Bildungsroman, tracing the development of an individual through a series of encounters, occupations and relationships from boyhood to manhood.

The Adventures of Augie March won the 1954 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Both Time magazine and the Modern Library Board named it one of the hundred best novels in the English language.

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Good for readers who want: a coming-of-age story and a long read.

  • Mexico
  • Family life
  • Coming of age
  • Picaresque literature
  • Depression
  • Young men
  • Travel
  • Chicago (ill.)

2 About Saul Bellow

1915–2005

Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a Canadian and American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times, and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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