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Synopsis
In Saul Bellow's exuberantly autobiographical novel, the larger-than-life Augie March begins as a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression. Drifting from job to job, he falls in love with Thea, an eagle trainer, and develops schemes--each more grandiose and unrealistic than the last--for making money and becoming famous. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH is often called one of the great American novels; it was, at any rate, the novel that marked Saul Bellow as a great American writer when it appeared in 1953.
| Size | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 11.2 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "I am an American, Chicago born--Chicago, that somber city--and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles."
Industry Reviews
"[A] grand gesture in the picaresque tradition that clearly sought to fulfill the dream every American writer then treasured, of writing the Great American Novel. It was a book reminiscent of James T. Farrell's STUDS LONIGAN and John Dos Passos' U.S.A. in its inclusiveness, its sympathy for working-class Americans, its 'refusal to lead a disappointed life.'"
Yardley
"A rollicking, perplexing, astounding whopper of a picaresque novel."
Henrick
"An extremely funny and marvellously energetic picaresque adventure story. The book spills over with characters who appear for no more than a dozen pages, but are seen with great visual power and described in a language of Dickensenian clarity and comprehensiveness...More than anything else, a book about America, about its extraordinary variety of people and scenes and occupations."
Kazin
"THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH is the Great American Novel. Search no further...[It] is the Great American Novel because of its fantastic inclusiveness, its pluralism, its qualmless promiscuity. In these pages the highest and lowest mingle and hobnob in the vast democracy of Bellow's prose. Everything is in here, the crushed and the exalted and all the notches in between, from the kitchen stiff to the American eagle."
Amis
"The transformation of the novelist who published DANGLING MAN in 1944 and THE VICTIM in 1947 into the novelist who published THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH in '53 is revolutionary....In AUGIE MARCH, a very grand, assertive, freewheeling conception of both the novel and the world the novel represents breaks loose from all sort of self-imposed strictures, the beginner's principles of composition are subverted, and...the writer himself is 'hipped on superabundance.'"
New Yorker - Philip Roth (10/09/2000)
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