Pub Date: October 1, 2006
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 1040
Features: Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 1.50" H x 8.40" L x 5.40" W ( 1.20 lbs) 608 pages
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Classics | Historical | General | Urban and Street Lit
Series: Penguin Classics
Description: "The Adventures of Augie March" set the stage for Bellow's Nobel Prize Award in 1976 and established him as a crucial voice that demanded to be heard. Fifty years later, it remains the best loved of Bellow's works as new readers discover this vital, truly American masterpiece.
Review Quotes: "[Bellow's] body of work is more capacious of imagination and language than anyone else's. . . . If there's a candidate for the Great American Novel, I think this is it." --Salman Rushdie, The Sunday Times (London)
"A great geyser of a novel, spewing high eloquence and low comedy, flooding the eyes and ears with Yiddish puns and gangster slang . . . The sentences that Bellow invented do not just flow; they exert an explosive pressure that never, ever lets up." --The Atlantic, "The Great American Novels"