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When compiler Jerome Charyn first read Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March, a world of letters opened up to him. It was his first exposure to the full potential of language, rendered breathlessly. In those pages he felt the terror and delight and buzz and ceaseless clatter of the... read more
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I am an American, Chicago born-Chicago, that somber city-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; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Collections & Readers
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Anthologies
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
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