Book · 1953 · Fiction

The Adventures of Augie March

Name: The Adventures of Augie March
Author: Saul Bellow

Penguin Classics (Penguin Random House) · 608 pages

★ 7.0 editorial score

"I am an American, Chicago born," Augie announces, and the novel loosened its collar. He takes every job and every mentor the Depression offers him and refuses to be claimed by any.

Genre

Picaresque Coming of age

Medium

Novel

Subject

Adventure The individual Love America

Setting

Chicago

Time

1953Depicts Great DepressionDepicts 1930s

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