by Saul Bellow · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140072723
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«The Adventures of Augie March» is Saul Bellow's picaresque novel, published by Penguin in paperback (544 pages, in English).
The novel follows Augie March, a young man growing up in Depression-era Chicago who refuses to accept a fixed destiny. Augie's nonconformity takes him from one job to another and from one city to another, among colourful characters and unpredictable situations, while the narrative explores American identity and the meaning of life.
The novel was originally published in 1953, received the National Book Award for Fiction in 1954, and the Penguin edition dates from 1984.
For readers of twentieth-century American classics and coming-of-age novels.
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times, and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.
