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The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
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The Adventures of Augie March

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Narrator Grover Gardner

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Length 22 hours 14 minutes
Language English
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This grand-scale heroic comedy tells the story of the exuberant young Augie, a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Depression.

While his neighborhood friends all settle down into their various chosen professions, Augie, as particular as an aristocrat, demands a special destiny. He latches on to a wild succession of occupations, proudly rejecting each one as too limiting. It is not until he tangles with a glamorous perfectionist named Thea, a huntress with a trained eagle, that his independence is seriously threatened. Luckily, his nature, like the eagleโ€™s, breaks down under the strain. He goes on to recruit himself to even more outlandish projects but always ducks out in time to continue improvising his unconventional career.

With a jaunty sense of humor embedded in a serious moral view, Bellowโ€™s story both celebrates and satirizes the irrepressible American spirit.

Saul Bellow (1915โ€“2005), author of numerous novels, novellas, and stories, was the only novelist to receive three National Book Awards. He also received the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize in Literature, the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction. During the 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict, Bellow served as a war correspondent for Newsday. He taught at New York University, Princeton, and the University of Minnesota and was chairman of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

Grover Gardner has recorded more than 650 audiobooks since beginning his career in 1981.ย  He's been named one of the "Best Voices of the Century" as well as a "Golden Voice" by AudioFile magazine.ย  Gardner has garnered over 20 AudioFile Earphones Awards and is the recipient of an Audio Publishers Association Audie Award, as well as a three-time finalist.ย  In 2005, Publishers Weekly deemed him "Audiobook Narrator of the Year."

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Gardner has also narrated hundreds of audiobooks under the names Tom Parker and Alexander Adams.ย  Among his many titles are Marcus Sakey's At the City's Edge, as well as Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and John Irving's The Cider House Rules.ย  Gardner studied Theater and Art History at Rollins College and received a Master's degree in Acting from George Washington University.ย  He lives in Oregon with his significant other and daughter.

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Reviews

The Adventures of Augie March is the great American novel. Search no further.”

“[Bellow’s] body of work is more capacious of imagination and language than anyone else’s…If there’s a candidate for the great American novel, I think this is it.”

“The best postwar American novel…magnificently terminates and fulfills the line of Melville, Twain, and Whitman.”

“This is a must-listen; should be in most collections.”

“A book of extraordinary and massive power…plainly one of the richest of twentieth-century American novels.”

โ€œThis audio willโ€ฆkeep listeners enthralledโ€ฆ[Gardnerโ€™s] narration seems natural and authentic.โ€

โ€œ[Grover Gardnerโ€™s] reading...is masterful...Listening to [Gardnerโ€™s] superb reading of the novel makes clear that this is one of Bellowโ€™s most entertaining and most profound books; it is, in fact, a magnificent modern novel.โ€ 

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