The Adventures of Augie March
The Adventures of Augie March, novel by Saul Bellow, published in 1953. It is a picaresque story of a poor Jewish youth from Chicago, his progress, sometimes highly comic, through the world of the 20th century, and his attempts to make sense of it. The book won the National Book Award for fiction in 1954.
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Article Title:
The Adventures of Augie March
Website Name:
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Publisher:
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Date Published:
11 October 2013
Access Date:
April 21, 2025