Saul Bellow,Christopher Hitchens
Augie comes on stage with one of literatureâ€™s most famous opening lines. â€œI am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted.â€ Itâ€™s the â€œCall me Ishmaelâ€ of mid-20th-century American fiction. (For the record, Bellow was born in Canada.) Or it would be if Ishmael had been more like Tom Jones with a philosophical disposition. With this teeming book Bellow returned a Dickensian richness to the American novel. As he makes his way to a full brimming consciousness of himself, Augie careens himself through numberless occupations, and countless mentors and exemplars, all the while enchanting us with the slapdash American music of his voice.
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The Adventures of Augie March