The adventures of Augie March / [print]
Saul Bellow ; introduction by Christopher Hitchens.
- New York : Penguin , (c)2006.
- xvii, 586 pages ; 21 cm.
- Penguin Classics. .
- Penguin classics. .
Augie March is a Jewish-American boy growing up fatherless and poor in Depression-era Chicago. He seeks a "special destiny," although his circumstances seem to position him for a uniquely disappointing life: his family consists of a simple-minded mother, a brother and "grandmother" who prove to be Machiavellian in their intentions, and an "idiot" youngest brother, Georgie.
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