Dangling Man (Alison Press Books)

by SaulBellow (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1984

  $66.03

  The setting is New York in the 1940's and the hero is waiting to be called up into the armed forces. His life until now is behind him and a totally new experiences lies ahead. Since he does not know whether his enlistment papers will arrive today, tomorrow, next week or next month he can settle to nothing, make no plans and finds concentration difficult. hen Dangling Man was published in America in 1944 few critics doubted that it was the debut of a major literary figure. When John Lehmann brought it out in England, Philip Toynbee wrote in the Observer- 'It is an extraordinary first novel if only because its intentions are so precise and its fulfilment of them so complete.'

• Used

  Paperback
  1973

  $3.89

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $13.84

  Expecting to be inducted into the army, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction, he finds himself facing a year of idleness. Dangling Man is his journal, a wonderful account of his restless wanderings through Chicago's streets, his musings on the past, his psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him, and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice.