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The Adventures of Augie March
First edition cover
AuthorSaul Bellow
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenrePicaresque novel, Bildungsroman
PublisherViking Press
Publication date
September 18, 1953[1]
Media typePrint (hardcover & paperback)
Pages586
Dewey Decimal
813.52
LC ClassPS3503 .E446 A57

The Adventures of Augie March is a picaresque novel by Saul Bellow, published in 1953 by Viking Press. It features the eponymous Augie March, who grows up during the Great Depression, and it is an example of Bildungsroman, tracing the development of an individual through a series of encounters, occupations and relationships from boyhood to manhood.

The Adventures of Augie March won the 1954 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.[2] Both Time magazine and the Modern Library Board named it one of the hundred best novels in the English language.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Books Published Today". The New York Times: 21. September 18, 1953.
  2. ^ [NBF]. "National Book Awards – 1954". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-30.
    (With essay by Nathaniel Rich from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference TIMEadventures was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference modern was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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