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Article: Inside the hornet's head.(Arts and Letters ... Saul Bellow inspired a generation of Jewish American authors)(Biography)
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- September 1, 2003
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2003 Theodor Herzl Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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I did not stumble upon Augie March lightly. I gave it as a gift to the most beautiful girl in my high school class, Valerie K. Hadn't it won awards? And wasn't it about a Jewish bumpkin like myself?. (So I'd heard secondhand). I meant the book to bring me closer to Valerie, but it never did. And then, a year or two later, I actually read it and was overwhelmed by its bounty. It was a book that never stopped to breathe, and I was breathless in its wake. Leslie Fiedler calls it "unlike anything else in English except Moby Dick." It had the same largeness of imagination ... and a wondrous eagle called Caligula instead of a white whale.
But it was much ...
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Article: Fed: Augie March adds APRA to its 2007 awards haul
AAP General News (Australia);
June 5, 2007 ;
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... ... News (Australia) 06-05-2007 Fed: Augie March adds APRA to its 2007 awards haul Eds ... Writer SYDNEY June 5 AAP - Melbourne band Augie March will have one crowded mantlepiece after ... songwriter of the year. The haul adds to Augie March's phenomenal 2007 tally, which includes ...
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