The adventures of Augie March / Saul Bellow ; introduction by Christopher Hitchens.

By:

Bellow, Saul [author.]

Contributor(s):

Hitchens, Christopher [author of introduction, etc.]

Series: Penguin classicsPublication details: New York : Penguin, 2006.Description: xvii, 586 papes ; 22 cmISBN:

9780143039570 (paperback)
0143039571 (paperback)

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Picaresque literature.

DDC classification:

813.54 23

LOC classification:

PS3503.E4488 A66 2006

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item reserves
Book	Melbourne Athenaeum Library	Fiction	BEL	Available		057949

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Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1953.

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.

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