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        The Adventures Of Augie March


        setting

        Chicago; Mexico; New York; Paris; the sea

        time

        1920s-40s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1949

        page count

        616

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Augie March

        Rip's impressions

        Fast and fun and, somehow, the hero always manages to remain upbeat. There are few flaws in this book, if any. Another Chicago-based story.

        first line

        I am an American, Chicago born--Chicago, that somber city--and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)