Dangling Man

by Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow's first published novel portrays the thoughts and discomforts of Joseph, a young man in Chicago who quits his job in expectation of being drafted into the army during World War II. A series of bureaucratic snafus holds up his induction, however, and he finds himself with nothing to do for nearly a year. DANGLING MAN, the journal of Joseph's fresh and empty days, is full of insights into nearly every aspect of his world as he waits for the day when it all will end. DANGLING MAN appeared in 1944, when Bellow was still in his 20s.

Editions of Dangling Man

ISBN 9780143039877	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Penguin Classics	Date 2006	Price $6.24	Good
ISBN 9780814900246	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Random House Inc	Date 1944	Price $12.00	Good
ISBN 9780140018622	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Penguin USA	Date	Price £1.00	Good
ISBN 9780140189353	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Penguin Group USA	Date 1996	Price $1.00	Used - Good

Publisher Notes

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.