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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)
"A book of extraordinary and massive power…plainly one of the richest of twentieth-century American novels."
Alfred Kazin