The Adventures of Augie March Audiobook

Quotes

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

  — Atlantic Monthly

• “[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.”

  — Sunday Times (London)

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

  — New Republic

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

  — Library Journal

• “This audio will…keep listeners enthralled…[Gardner’s] narration seems natural and authentic.”

  — Kliatt

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

  — Alfred Kazin, literary critic and author of On Native Grounds

• “[Grover Gardner’s] reading...is masterful...Listening to [Gardner’s] superb reading of the novel makes clear that this is one of Bellow’s most entertaining and most profound books; it is, in fact, a magnificent modern novel.” 

  — Allen Chavkin, Southwest Texas State University