The Adventures of Augie March
American novelist, 1915–2005. Won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1954, 1965 and 1971 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976.
The Adventures of Augie March is a 1953 novel by Saul Bellow. It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1954.
On 4 of the 17 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Saul Bellow
- First published
- 1953
- Length
- 592 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- National Book Award for Fiction winner, 1954
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Picaresque, Coming of age, Migration and identity
Is The Adventures of Augie March worth reading?
4 of the 17 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the National Book Award for Fiction and 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library, 1998) | No. 81 | See the list |
| All-Time 100 Novels (Time, 2005) | Listed | See the list |
| National Book Award for Fiction (winners and finalists) (National Book Foundation, 1954) | Winner | See the list |
| The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer, 2015) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of The Adventures of Augie March
The edition we link to is the Penguin Classics paperback (2001), 592 pages.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics (paperback, 2001)
- Pages
- 592
- ISBN
- 9780141184869
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Adventures of Augie March
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 50% of the points available on prize lists, against 26% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
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