The Adventures of Augie March (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
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 Adventures of Augie March won the National Book Award in 1954.   --The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.