- Picaresque literature, Depressions, Family, National Book Award Winner
Augie's nonconformity leads him into an eventful, humorous, and sometimes earthy way of life.
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Prestige, spare, open-ended and meticulous.
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
- rawmeticulous
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Saul Bellow
- First published
- 1953
- Pages
- 536
- Publisher
- David Campbell, Penguin, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- und, Polish, English
- ISBN
- 9780436039591
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Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts.[2] He is the only writer to have won the National Book Award three times, and the only writer to have been nominated for it six times. Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Bellow
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