The adventures of Augie March / Saul Bellow.
by Bellow, Saul.
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BookPublisher: Harmondsworth, Middlessex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1984, c1953Description: 536 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0140072721 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Young men -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction | Depressions -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction | Family -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction | Americans -- Europe -- Fiction | Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction | Mexico -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Bildungsromane. | Picaresque literature.DDC classification: 813/.52 Summary: "With a rare blend of naive and sophisticated candor the hero, Augie March, described as a "runner after good things, servant of love, embarker on schemes, recruit of sublime ideas and good-time Charlie" takes the reader with him on his "campaign after a worthwhile fate." A picaresque twentieth-century adventure tale with an amazingly real assortment of characters, a vast number of episodes ranging in location from Chicago to Mexico, to shipwreck at sea, and finally to Europe, and an original, deceptively simple style of writing...
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Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1953.
"With a rare blend of naive and sophisticated candor the hero, Augie March, described as a "runner after good things, servant of love, embarker on schemes, recruit of sublime ideas and good-time Charlie" takes the reader with him on his "campaign after a worthwhile fate." A picaresque twentieth-century adventure tale with an amazingly real assortment of characters, a vast number of episodes ranging in location from Chicago to Mexico, to shipwreck at sea, and finally to Europe, and an original, deceptively simple style of writing...
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