The Adventures of Augie March (Alison Press Books)

by SaulBellow (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1985

  $30.73

• New

  paperback
  

  $13.25

  Saul Bellow's American masterpiece, The Adventures of Augie March includes an introduction by Christopher Hitchens in Penguin Modern Classics . A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, including butler, thief, dog-washer, sailor and salesman. He is a 'born recruit', easily influenced by others who try to mould his destiny. Not until he tangles with the glamorous Thea, a huntress with a trained eagle, can he attempt to break free. A modern day everyman on an odyssey in search of reality and identity, Augie March is the star of star performer in a richly observed human variety show, a modern-day Columbus in search of reality and fulfilment. Saul Bellow (1915-2005) was a Canadian - born American writer who enjoyed a dazzling career as a novelist, marked with numerous literary prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. His books include The Adventures of Augie March , Herzog , More Die of Heartbreak , Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories , Mr. Sammler's Planet , Seize The Day and The Victim . If you enjoyed The Adventures of Augie March , you might like John Updike's Rabbit, Run , also available in Penguin Classics . The Adventures of Augie March is the Great American Novel. Search no further . (Martin Amis, Guardian ). Funny, poignant, crowded with carnivalesque types and yet narrated by a voice that is lonely and simple, it is Bellow's fat comic masterpiece . ( Observer ).

• New

  Hardcover
  1995

  $16.74

  This is the fictional autobiography of a rumbustious adventurer and poker-player who sets off his native Chicago in the spirit of a latter-day Columbus to rediscover the world - and more especially, twentieth-century America. This expansive comedy of American manners in the tradition of Twain's 'innocent abroad' is a major classic of twentieth-century American literature.