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Augie is a poor but exuberant boy growing up in Chicago during the Depression. While his friends all settle into chosen professions, Augie demands a special destiny. He tests out a wild succession of occupations, proudly rejecting each as too limiting—until he tangles with the glamorous perfectionist Thea.
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"[Bellow's] body of work is more capacious of imagination and language than anyone else's…If there's a candidate for the great American novel, I think this is it."
Sunday Times (London)
"Tom Parker's reading...is masterful...Listening to Parker's superb reading of the novel makes clear that this is one of Bellow's most entertaining and most profound books; it is, in fact, a magnificent modern novel."
Allen Chavkin, Southwest Texas State University
"A book of extraordinary and massive power…plainly one of the richest of twentieth-century American novels."
Alfred Kazin