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The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics) |
by: Saul Bellow
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780143039570
ISBN: 0143039571
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 608
Publication Date: October 03, 2006
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics
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Editorial Review:
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As soon as it first appeared in 1953, this gem by the great Saul Bellow was hailed as an American classic. Bold, expansive, and keenly humorous, The Adventures of Augie March blends street language with literary elegance to tell the story of a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression. A "born recruit," Augie makes himself available for hire by plungers, schemers, risk takers, and operators, compiling a record of choices that isto say the least eccentric.
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- Excellent writingWhat can I say other than this novel is a true 20th Century American classic. The use of language is incomparable.
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- This is Not Carl Sandburg's ChicagoThese seem to be Chicago days for this reviewer. He has just done some reviews of Chicago's Chess Records that essentially defined the sound of the electrified blues in what would be old Augie's old neighborhood. Furthermore, I have reviewed the work of Chicago's Nelson Algren who takes more than one look at the downside of Chicago life in the raw - what happens to the Augies when they do not break out of that place between the working poor and the lumpenproletariat. And this is a good place to set ... Read More
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- Growing up in the depressionI read Augie more than 20 years ago and again in 07 and still found it an enjoyable read, engrossing, entertaining, gives one an idea of what life was like back then during the depression. It's really a sprawling succession of stories, not particularly cohesive but what life story is? It's the experiences that matter here. Bellow's themes about family are here as are his usual excessive references to just about every intellectual pursuit known to humanity. If he leaves anything out he'll be sure to ... Read More
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- Great big YES to AmericaThe Adventures of Augie March is Bellow's most exuberant, most optimistic book. A memoir from the point of a man about to enter middle-age, it sums up his great American youth - from a boy in Chicago, bought up by the redoubtable Grandma Lausch, to an adolescence and early adulthood filled with drift and uncertainty. Augie March is a dreamer, an idealist, a man who America offers no fixed place or route for but he keeps knocking and banging the door down anyway. He takes on a multitude of jobs: thief, ... Read More
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- Inchoate Bellow tries to flex his genius (with mixed results) Augie March is a modern Coloumbus discovering America. Bellows, master of the complicated single character narrative, paints Augie's childhood strongly illuminating his relationship to money. Augie was born poor. This is contrasted with Grandma Lauch's desire to have Augie and his brother Simon become gentlemen. She strives to teach them manners without the world to match the image materially. She eventually gets thrown away into a old age home where they rarely visit. Characters are disposed of, ... Read More
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