title: Saul Bellow: Novels 1944-1953: Dangling Man, The Victim, and The Adventures of Augie March (Library of America)
author:  Saul Bellow 
description: If Saul Bellow wasnt actually the first to make a novel out of the pure American idiom, he makes Augie March a darn good voice to sing along with Huckleberry Finn. Sentence for sentence,<i>Augie March</i>is one of the finest excursions into prose by any modern American. <b><i>Chicago Tribune</i></b>
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  _The victim: a novel_  
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  Saul Bellow  
  New York, NY, USA : Penguin, 1988, c1947. (1947)  
  Rating: | ★★★☆☆  
    
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  **Product Description**
  
  Bellow's second novel charts the descent into paranoia of Asa Leventhal, sub-
  editor of a trade magazine. With his wife away visiting her mother, Asa is
  alone, but not for long. His sister-in-law summons him to Staten Island to
  help with his sick nephew. Other demands mount, and readers witness a man
  losing control.
  
  **About the Author**
  
   **Saul Bellow** (1915-2005) wrote thirteen novels and numerous novellas and
  stories in his lifetime. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976.
  **Norman Rush** is the author of the novel _Mating_ , which won the National
  Book Award, as well as the novel _Mortals_ and the short story collection
  _Whites_.
  
  Saul Bellow The Victim
  
  First published in 1947
  
  It is related, O auspicious King, that there was a merchant of the merchants
  who had much wealth, and business in various cities. Now on a 