The Adventures of Augie March

by Saul Bellow

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.

Editions of The Adventures of Augie March

ISBN 9780786186594	Binding/Format MP3 CD	Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc	Date 2008	Price $33.03	NEW
ISBN 9780786162543	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc	Date 2008	Price $71.50	Like New
ISBN 9780140072723	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Penguin USA	Date	Price $3.50	Fair
ISBN 9780140281606	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Penguin Group USA	Date 1999	Price $4.99	Used-Like New
ISBN 9780380009619	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Harpercollins	Date 1983	Price $1.00	Used, Good
ISBN 9780670032426	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Penguin Group USA	Date 2003	Price $4.91	Very good
ISBN 9780143039570	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Penguin Group USA	Date 2006	Price $7.42	Acceptable
ISBN 9780140189414	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Penguin Group USA	Date 1996	Price $1.00	Good
ISBN 9781417775231	Binding/Format Prebinding	Publisher Bt Bound	Date 2006	Price None Available
ISBN 9780786103447	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc	Date 1992	Price $14.75	Good
ISBN 9780679444602	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Random House Inc	Date 1995	Price $8.25	Very Good

Publisher Notes

Introduction by Martin Amis

Media 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.'"

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.

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