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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.

Dangling Man

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    A Paperback / softback by Saul Bellow, J M Coetzee

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 27 September 2007
      ISBN-13 9780141188775
      978-0141188775
      ISBN-10 0141188774
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      Contemporary Fiction

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

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