TY - BOOK AU - Bellow,Saul TI - The adventures of Augie March SN - 0143039571 (pbk.) AV - PS3503.E4488 A66 1984 U1 - 813/.52 19 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Penguin KW - Americans KW - Mexico KW - Fiction KW - Failure (Psychology) KW - Depressions KW - Young men KW - Chicago (Ill.) KW - Picaresque literature KW - gsafd KW - Psychological fiction KW - lcsh KW - Domestic fiction 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 -