| Title | : | The Adventures of Augie March |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Saul Bellow |
| Release | : | 2015-01-10 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature, Classics |
| Size | : | 1797414 |
| Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted.” It’s the “Call me Ishmael” of mid-20th-century American fiction. (For the record, Bellow was born in Canada.) Or it would be if Ishmael had been more like Tom Jones with a philosophical disposition. With this teeming book Bellow returned a Dickensian richness to the American novel. As he makes his way to a full brimming consciousness of himself, Augie careens himself through numberless occupations, and countless mentors and exemplars, all the while enchanting us with the slapdash American music of his voice. |
