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Dangling Man
Saul Bellow · 1944 · 159 pages
[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] An essential masterwork by Nobel laureate Saul Bellow. Expecting to be inducted into the army during World War II, 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. Written in diary format, Bellow's first novel documents Joseph's psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice.
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Dave Eggers
“Bellow explores the psyche of a young man waiting to hear if he’s been drafted. I don’t know if anyone’s ever better represented the workings of the mind in crisis, or the mental state of a human whose life might change, permanently, based on forces far beyond his control.”↗