The Adventures of Augie March - (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) by Saul Bellow (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"The Adventures of Augie March" set the stage for Bellow's Nobel Prize Award in 1976 and established him as a crucial voice that demanded to be heard. Fifty years later, it remains the best loved of Bellow's works as new readers discover this vital, truly American masterpiece.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Much of <i>The Adventures of Augie March </i>takes place during the Great Depression, but far from being a chronicle of deprivation, the first of Saul Bellow's string of masterpieces testifies to the explosive richness of life when it is lived at high risk and in tumultuous social circumstances. <p/>In a brawling Chicago of crooks, con artists, second-story men, extravagant dreamers, snappy dressers, and cold-eyed pragmatists, Augie March undergoes his sentimental education--an education that, though imbued with reality, will take him into realms progressively stranger, more marvelous, more filled with indecipherable meaning. <i>The Adventures of Augie March</i> is the product of an elegant and skeptical mind on which nothing is lost, and of an appetite for the look and feel of things that is both enormous and passionate. The result of these varying felicities is a novel that is immediate, strikingly unpredictable, authentic, and convincing. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[Bellow's] body of work is more capacious of imagination and language than anyone else's...If there's a candidate for the Great American Novel, I think this is it." -Salman Rushdie, "The Sunday Times "(London)<br><br>"The Adventures of Augie March" is the Great American Novel. Search no further. (Martin Amis)<BR><BR>If there's a candidate for the Great American Novel, I think this is it. (Salman Rushdie)<BR><BR><br><br>If there's a candidate for the Great American Novel, I think this is it. (Salman Rushdie)<br><br>"The Adventures of Augie March is the Great American Novel. Search no further."<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>SAUL BELLOW</b> (1915-2005) is the only novelist to receive three National Book Awards, for <i>The Adventures of Augie March</i>, <i>Herzog</i>, and <i>Mr. Sammler's Planet</i>. He was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel <i>Humboldt's Gift</i> in 1975, and in 1976 received the Nobel Prize for Literature for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work.
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