The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow (SIGNED, First Edition)

The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow (SIGNED, First Edition)
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow (SIGNED, First Edition)
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow (SIGNED, First Edition)
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow (SIGNED, First Edition)
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow (SIGNED, First Edition)
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow (SIGNED, First Edition)
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow (SIGNED, First Edition)

The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow (SIGNED, First Edition)

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow. This is a first printing of Adventures of Augie March, SIGNED directly by the Nobel Prize-winning Saul Bellow on the title page. In a first issue dust jacket.

A small inscription on the cover of the book - which gets covered by the Dust Jacket. Finding a book in this condition such as this is extremely scarce; dust jacket bright and lovely, with. At the top, but in otherwise flawless condition, it is. Overall Dust Jacket condition: Fine. Augie comes on stage with one of literatures most famous opening lines.

Its 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. As he makes his way to a full brimming consciousness of himself, Augie careens through numberless occupations and countless mentors and exemplars, all the while enchanting us with the slapdash American music of his voice. Saul Bellow was born in Lachine, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, in 1915, and was raised in Chicago. He attended the University of Chicago, received his Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1937, with honors in sociology and anthropology, did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, and served in the Merchant Marine during World War II. Was published in 1944, and his second.

In 1948 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and spent two years in Paris and traveling in Europe, where he began. The Adventures of Augie March. Which won the National Book Award for fiction in 1954. Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories. (1975), was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

Sammler's Planet were awarded the National Book Award for fiction. Bellow's first non-fiction work. To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account. Published on October 25,1976, is his personal and literary record of his sojourn in Israel during several months in 1975. Bellow was awarded the International Literary Prize for Herzog, becoming the first American to receive the prize.

In January 1968 the Republic of France awarded him the Croix de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, the highest literary distinction awarded by that nation to non-citizens, and in March 1968 he received the B'nai B'rith Jewish Heritage Award for "excellence in Jewish literature", and in November 1976 he was awarded the America's Democratic Legacy Award of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the first time this award was made to a literary personage. A playwright as well as a novelist, Saul Bellow was the author of. And of three short plays, collectively entitled. Which were produced on Broadway in 1966.

Partisan Review, Playboy, Harper's Bazaar, The New Yorker, Esquire. The New York Times Book Review. Horizon, Encounter, The New Republic, The New Leader. During the 1967 Arab-lsraeli conflict, he served as a war correspondent for. He taught at Bard College, Princeton University, and the University of Minnesota, and was a member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

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