Bellow, Saul

The adventures of Augie March / Saul Bellow - New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1999 - 585 p. ; 22 cm - Penguin great books of the 20th century .

Originally published in 1953, Saul Bellow's modern picaresque tale grandly illustrates twentieth-century man's restless pursuit of an elusive meaning. Augie March, a young man growing up in Chicago during the Great Depression, doesn't understand success on other people's terms. Fleeing to Mexico in search of something to fill his restless soul and soothe his hunger for adventure

0140281606 9780140281606

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Young men--Fiction
Depressions--Fiction
Americans--Mexico--Fiction


Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction
Mexico--Fiction


Domestic fiction.
Picaresque literature.
Bildungsromans.

PS3503.E4488 / A66 1999 PS3503.E4488 / A66 1999

813.52