The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

The Adventures of Augie March

Author: Saul Bellow

A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, including butler, thief, dog-washer, sailor and salesman. He is a 'born recruit', easily influenced by others who try to mould his destiny. Not until he tangles with the glamorous Thea, a huntress with a trained eagle, can he attempt to break free. A modern day Everyman on an odyssey in search of reality and identity, Augie March is the star performer in Bellow's exuberant, richly observed human variety show.

'Funny, poignant, crowded with carnivalesque types and yet narrated in a voice that is lonely and simple, it is Bellow's fat comic masterpiece' Observer

Saul Bellow: Letters

By Saul Bellow & Benjamin Taylor

'Magnificent . . . The man is all here in this book, in this stunning, almost baffling plenitude. Bellow's letters are one of Bellow's greatest books.' – The New York Times Book Reviews

Published: 21/03/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143120469

RRP: $24.95

Him With His Foot in His Mouth: Mini Modern Classics

By Saul Bellow

Vital, exuberant, streetwise and philosophizing, Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow is one of the undisputed masters of American prose. In this inspired novella an ageing man writes an apology for his rudeness to a librarian thirty-five years earlier, unleashing a dazzling, rancorous comic riff on growing old, regret, rudeness, smoking and 'the world's grandeur'.

Published: 17/03/2011

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141195742

RRP: $5.00

The Actual

By Saul Bellow

Harry Trellman, an ageing, astute Chicago businessman, has never really belonged anywhere. His human attachments, life everything else in his life, are singular and irregular. But Harry's observational talents have not gone unnoticed by billionaire Sigmund Adletsky, who retains him as his advisor. Soon the old man discoveres behind Harry's stoic mask an intense forty-year-old passion – and the...

Published: 18/07/2008

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141188843

RRP: $22.95

The Victim

By Saul Bellow

While his wife is away visiting her mother, Leventhal feels lost and alone. One evening, seeking relief from the New York heat wave, he is accosted in a park near his apartment by a seedy-looking drunk. Levelthal faintly recognizes the hostile man as someone he once met in the past. The man, however, claims Leventhal ruined his life.

Can this be true? Did he cause harm to this man? Unable to shake...

Published: 11/03/2008

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141188836

RRP: $24.95

The Dean's December

By Saul Bellow

Albert Corde, dean of a Chicago college, is unprepared for the violent response to his scathing articles on city corruption and his involvement in the trial of two black people charged with killing a white student. He finds himself accused of being a civic-minded fool and a racist. Journeying to Bucharest, where his mother-in-law lies dying, Corde compares the corruption and inhumanity of Communism...

Published: 11/03/2008

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141188867

RRP: $24.95

To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account

By Saul Bellow

In the mid-1970s, Saul Bellow visited Israel and To Jerusalem and Back is his account of his time there. Immersing himself in its landscape and culture, he records the opinions, passions and dreams of Israelis of varying viewpoints – from Prime Minister Rabin, novelist Amos Oz and the editor of an Arab-language newspaper to a kibbutznik escaped from the Warsaw ghetto and the barber at Bellow's...

Published: 11/03/2008

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141188874

RRP: $24.95

Ravelstein

By Saul Bellow

Abe Ravelstein – ferocious intellectual, bestselling author, confident of presidents and prime ministers and possessor of tastes that would bankrupt a king – is celebrating his success in Paris. He and his friend Chick trawl the Parisian streets in search of haute couture, fine foods and fresh arguments. But Ravelstein is dying and, in challenging Chick to record his life, he sets in motion...

Published: 11/03/2008

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141188850

RRP: $24.95

It All Adds Up

By Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow's fiction, honoured by a Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer, among other awards, has made him a literary giant. Now the man himself and a lifetime of his insightful views on a range of topics spring off the page in this, his first non-fiction collection, which encompasses articles, lectures, essays, travel pieces, and an 'Autobiography of Ideas'. It All Adds Up is a fascinating journey through...

Published: 04/02/2008

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141188829

RRP: $24.95