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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... Read Full Overview

Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow's greatest novel

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

Originally published in 1953, Saul Bellow's modern picaresque tale grandly illustrates twentieth-century man's restless pursuit of an elusive meaning. Augie March, a young man growing up in Chicago during the Great Depression, doesn't understand success on other people's terms... Read Full Overview

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

Among the names in the papers in 1953-from Khrushchev to Charlie Chaplin, from Dwight Eisenhower to the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth-was Saul Bellow's, whose The Adventures of Augie Marchattracted enormous attention for its fresh, bold, exhilarating voice and thrust Saul Bellow... Read Full Overview