Augie, with his brother Simon and the mentally abnormal George have no father and are brought up by their mother, who is losing her eyesight, and a tyrannical, grandmother-like boarder, in very humble circumstances in the rough parts of Chicago. The story describes Augie March's growth from childhood to a fairly stable maturity. Both Time magazine and the Modern Library Board named it one of the hundred best novels in the English language. The Adventures of Augie March won the 1954 U.S.
It features the eponymous Augie March, who grows up during the Great Depression, and it is an example of Bildungsroman, tracing the development of an individual through a series of encounters, occupations and relationships from boyhood to manhood. The Adventures of Augie March is a picaresque novel by Saul Bellow, published in 1953 by Viking Press.
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