Dangling Man

Saul Bellow · 1944 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Having quit his job the week his draft papers came, Joseph waits out a Chicago winter in a rented room while the army mislays his file and his wife goes to work. He keeps a journal to argue with himself about freedom, and learns that unlimited time is not the same thing as liberty. A first novel of deliberate European austerity, written well before its author found the voice everyone knows.

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