The adventures of Augie March - Bellow, Saul (New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1999)
Originally published in 1953, Saul Bellow's modern picaresque tale grandly illustrates twentieth-century man's restless pursuit of an elusive meaning. Augie March, a young man growing up in Chicago during the Great Depression, doesn't understand success on other people's terms. Fleeing to Mexico in search of something to fill his restless soul and soothe his hunger for adventure
Keywords: Young men -- Fiction; Depressions -- Fiction; Americans -- Mexico -- Fiction; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction; Mexico -- Fiction; Domestic fiction; Picaresque literature; Bildungsromans