The most traumatic incident in his life comes when he's persuaded by a rich girl to join her in Mexico on an expedition photographing her pet eagle, but after he almost takes a job as Trotsky's bodyguard, Thea Fenchel leaves him FTP, name this title character who tells us, "I am an American, Chicago born", in "Adventures" chronicled by Saul Bellow.
When he returns home from some criminal adventures in Michigan, he hangs out with old acquaintances like the aptly named Five Properties and works for his old boss, Einhorn.  After his brother Simon strikes it rich, he's set up with his sister-in-law Lucy Magnus, but that falls through and he ends up stealing textbooks for a living.  At the end, he marries the actress Stella and he's still not really happy though the sex is better.  The most traumatic incident in his life comes when he's persuaded by a rich girl to join her in Mexico on an expedition photographing her pet eagle, but after he almost takes a job as Trotsky's bodyguard, Thea Fenchel leaves him FTP, name this title character who tells us, "I am an American, Chicago born", in "Adventures" chronicled by Saul Bellow.
When he returns home from some criminal adventures in Michigan, he hangs out with old acquaintances like the aptly named Five Properties and works for his old boss, Einhorn.  
Augie March