Dangling Man

Bellow, Saul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814900240 ISBN 13: 9780814900246

Publisher: Vanguard Pr, 1944

This contemporary psychological novel explores the fate of a man who accepts a passive role in his own life during World War II

Review:

One of the most honest pieces of testimony on the psychology of a whole generation who have grown up during the Depression and the war, Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker
In this imaginative journal, set against fresh and vivid scenes in Chicago, the author has outlined what must seem to many others an uncannily accurate delineation of themselves. The New York Times
An extraordinary first novel. The Observer"

-One of the most honest pieces of testimony on the psychology of a whole generation who have grown up during the Depression and the war, - -Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker
-In this imaginative journal, set against fresh and vivid scenes in Chicago, the author has outlined what must seem to many others an uncannily accurate delineation of themselves.- -The New York Times
-An extraordinary first novel.- -The Observer

"One of the most honest pieces of testimony on the psychology of a whole generation who have grown up during the Depression and the war," -Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker

"In this imaginative journal, set against fresh and vivid scenes in Chicago, the author has outlined what must seem to many others an uncannily accurate delineation of themselves." -The New York Times

"An extraordinary first novel." -The Observer

About the Author:

Saul Bellow's dazzling career as a novelist has been marked with numerous literary prizes, including the 1976 Nobel Prize, and the Gold Medal for the Novel. His other books include The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, More Die of Heartbreak, Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories, Mr Sammler's Planet, Seize The Day and The Victim. Saul Bellow died in 2005.