BELLOW, Saul.
The Adventures of Augie March.
New York: Viking Press , 1953.
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"I Am An American, Chicago Born – Chicago, That Somber City – And Go At Things As I Have Taught Myself, Free-Style": First Edition Of The Nobel Prize-Winning Author’s First National Book Award-Winning Novel; Inscribed By Bellow
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Warmly inscribed by the author, "For Mary, my neighbor with good wishes Saul Bellow." Fine with the salmon topstain bright in an excellent first issue dust jacket that shows some usual wear to the spine.
The Adventures of Augie March comes on stage with one of literature's most famous opening lines, "I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted." Bellow quickly found a receptive audience for his new energetic style. The critic Irving Howe took note of Bellow's "free style" manner, calling it "the first major new style in American prose fiction since those of Hemingway and Faulkner." This novel went on to win the National Book Award for 1954 and was listed on Modern Library's 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.
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