The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in About Chicago, Most Recommended Books, and Fiction.
Augie comes on stage with one of literature?s most famous opening lines. ?I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, freestyle, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted.? It?s the ?Call me Ishmael? of mid20thcentury American fiction. (For the record, Bellow was born in Canada.) Or it w...
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