" For 10 points, identify this bildungsroman set in the Great Depression, written by Saul Bellow.
In one chapter of this novel, the title character hits his head against a rock after falling off a burro. Earlier in that chapter, a lizard bites the thigh of the bald eagle Caligula, who is sent to a zoo in Indiana. The title character is matched up with the stutterer Friedl, the niece of the real estate hotshot Five Properties. Near the end of the novel, the title character is shacked up with the lunatic Basteshaw in a lifeboat and gets back together with his old flame Stella. He works for the CIO and assists Einhorn before going to Mexico with the hunting-obsessed (*) Thea, for whom he keeps in mind the "respect, not love" maxim taught to him by his Machiavellian Grandma Lausch. The opening lines of this novel paraphrase Heraclitus and describe the title character as "an American, Chicago born." For 10 points, identify this bildungsroman set in the Great Depression, written by Saul Bellow.
In one chapter of this novel, the title character hits his head against a rock after falling off a burro.
The {Adventures} of {Augie March}