The Adventures of Augie March (50th Anniv. Edition) - Hardcover

Bellow, Saul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670032425 ISBN 13: 9780670032426

Publisher: Viking Adult, 2003

Synopsis

A fiftieth anniversary commemorative edition of the acclaimed work by the Bellow's Nobel Prize Award-winning writer features a lavish hardcover and new introduction. 20,000 first printing.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"The Adventures of Augie March is the great American novel. Search no further." --Martin Amis, The Atlantic Monthly

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. Fleeing to Mexico in search of something to fill his restless soul and soothe his hunger for adventure, Augie latches on to a wild succession of occupations until his journey brings him full circle. Yet beneath Augie's carefree nature lies a reflective person with a strong sense of responsibility to both himself and others, who in the end achieves a success of his own making. A modern-day Columbus, Augie March is a man searching not for land but for self and soul and, ultimately, for his place in the world.

"A book of extraordinary and massive power ... plainly one of the richest of twentieth-century American novels." --Alfred Kazin

"[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)

"The best postwar American novel, The Adventures of Augie March magnificently terminates and fulfills the line of Melville, Twain, and Whitman." --James Wood, The New Republic

About the Author:

Saul Bellow, author of twelve novels and numerous novellas and short stories, is the only novelist to receive three National Book Awards, for The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Mr. Sammler's Planet. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Humboldt's Gift and, in 1976, won the Nobel Prize in Literature. A longtime resident of Chicago, Mr. Bellow now lives in New England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0670032425
• ISBN 13: 9780670032426
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 608