The lineage of American adventure tales is vast and unwieldy. We have “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” “On The Road,” “Catch-22,” the works of Hemingway, and so on. But what about an urban ...

THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH (536 pp.)—Saul Bellow—Viking ($4.50). Augie March had not yet attained the age of immorality when his father abandoned Augie’s simple-minded mother and her three sons, ...

CHICAGO — When “The Adventures of Augie March,”Saul Bellow’s groundbreaking 500-plus-page Chicago epic, was published in 1953, it shook up literature. For the first time, an American writer told a ...

The opening sentence of Saul Bellow's 1953 novel, The Adventures of Augie March, which begins, "I am an American, Chicago born - Chicago, that somber city - and go at things as I have taught myself, ...

Saul Bellow, who died yesterday at age 89, was the darkly comic master sociologist whom in a series of biographical novels such as “Herzog” and “The Adventures of Augie March” charted the fate of the ...