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The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics) (original 1953; edition 2006)

by Saul Bellow

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The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1953)

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    This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald (CGlanovsky)
    CGlanovsky: Young men coming of age in different eras of 20th Century America.
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    CGlanovsky: Bildungsroman: the education of a young man.
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1953. Martin Amis says this is the Great American Novel, probably just to be an asshole. Stacie and S. are not impressed.
  AlCracka | Apr 2, 2013 |
Got this book from dutch-flybabe's book box. I put it on my TBR-shelf for now, but I'm not sure if I'll read it or just release it.
Looks interesting, but not VERY.
  BoekenTrol71 | Mar 31, 2013 |
A bit of a disappointment compared to his other books, which were undoubtedly excellent. This one has gone seems to have gone nowhere - or at least well over my head. I might try it again later, and hopefully I won't become crushingly bored within 100 pages. ( )
  HadriantheBlind | Mar 30, 2013 |
Couldn't finish it - just not my cup of tea. ( )
  br77rino | Oct 7, 2012 |
The bildungsroman of a fatherless fellow from privation drifting through jobs, women, and war. Bellow draws very contrasting themes -- longing and belonging, poverty and wealth, love and loss, with a comic undertow. ( )
  keylawk | Feb 20, 2012 |
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The Adventures of Augie March is for me the great creation myth of twentieth century American literature.
 
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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; and sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.
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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 is-to say the least- eccentric.

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Augie March is a Jewish-American boy growing up fatherless and poor in Depression-era Chicago. He seeks a "special destiny," although his circumstances seem to position him for a uniquely disappointing life: his family consists of a simple-minded mother, a brother and "grandmother" who prove to be Machiavellian in their intentions, and an "idiot" youngest brother, Georgie.… (more)

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