Written in 1944, Dangling Man takes the form of the journal of a young man waiting to be drafted. He has received notice, but a series of mix-ups keeps him waiting for the official call to arms. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Dangling Man
A brief, haunting rumination on the vagaries of fate and responsibility, The Victim is, in the words of Norman Rush, Saul Bellow's "purest creation."
One such figure is Jefferson Forman, “listed as having crashed in the Pacific” (82). Joseph knew Jeff in college—now he's a casualty of the war. But Forman turns out to have been a particular kind of person, an exemplar of pure will ...
This is the definitive collection of short stories by Saul Bellow. Abundant, precise, various, rich and exuberant, the stories display the stylistic and emotional brilliance which characterizes this master of prose.