The Adventures of Augie March: Introduction by Martin Amis (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

Bellow, Saul

ISBN 10: 1101907711 / ISBN 13: 9781101907719

Verlag: Everyman's Library, 2015

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1953 Viking Press 1st edition black and grey cloth hardcover, solid and unmarked, no jacket, some cover edge wear, parts of original jacket glued to inside covers. Fast Shipping - Safe and Secure Bubble Mailer!

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Adventures of Augie March: Introduction by Martin Amis (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
• Verlag: Everyman's Library
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1101907711
• ISBN-13: 9781101907719
• Einband: hardcover
• Zustand: Collectible-Good

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Inhaltsangabe

Much of The Adventures of Augie March takes place during the Great Depression, but far from being a chronicle of deprivation, the first of Saul Bellow’s string of masterpieces testifies to the explosive richness of life when it is lived at high risk and in tumultuous social circumstances.

In a brawling Chicago of crooks, con artists, second-story men, extravagant dreamers, snappy dressers, and cold-eyed pragmatists, Augie March undergoes his sentimental education—an education that, though imbued with reality, will take him into realms progressively stranger, more marvelous, more filled with indecipherable meaning. The Adventures of Augie March is the product of an elegant and skeptical mind on which nothing is lost, and of an appetite for the look and feel of things that is both enormous and passionate. The result of these varying felicities is a novel that is immediate, strikingly unpredictable, authentic, and convincing. 

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

SAUL BELLOW (1915-2005) is the only novelist to receive three National Book Awards, for The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Mr. Sammler's Planet. He was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Humboldt's Gift in 1975, and in 1976 received the Nobel Prize for Literature "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work."