Early on, after an ill-advised relationship with Frazer, Mimi Villars gets an abortion with the protagonist's help, which cuts off his relationship with Lucy Magnus.
If for some reason you care what Christopher Hitchens thinks about literature, you know he considers the Great American Novel to be this work, whose oddly-named minor characters include Lollie Fewter and Five Properties Coblin. Early on, after an ill-advised relationship with Frazer, Mimi Villars gets an abortion with the protagonist's help, which cuts off his relationship with Lucy Magnus. Later, that protagonist turns down Bateshaw's offer to work on protoplasmic experiments after escaping the wreck of the MacManus and returns to Stella, whom he met in Mexico while falconing with Thea Fenchel.  He'd gone there after working with the financier Einhorn in its early chapters. For 10 points, name this picaresque novel about a Chicago-born American by Saul Bellow.
If for some reason you care what Christopher Hitchens thinks about literature, you know he considers the Great American Novel to be this work, whose oddly-named minor characters include Lollie Fewter and Five Properties Coblin.
The {Adventures} of {Augie March}