TY - BOOK AU - Bellow,Saul TI - The adventures of Augie March T2 - Penguin Classics SN - 9780143039570 AV - PS3503.B448.A384 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Penguin KW - Americans KW - Mexico KW - Fiction KW - Failure (Psychology) KW - Depressions KW - Young men N1 - 2 N2 - 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 ER -