{"product_id":"2026200016888-secondhand-dangling-man","title":"Dangling Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the grey, cigarette-smoke-filled purgatory of wartime Chicago, a young man named Joseph waits — suspended between the life he once knew and the army that has yet to claim him. Dangling Man, Saul Bellow's debut novel, chronicles the inner life of a man rendered purposeless by bureaucratic delay, who turns to a private journal to map the slow disintegration of his will, his relationships, and his sense of self. Written in the form of a diary, this taut and psychologically intense novel captures the existential paralysis of a man caught between two worlds, with a raw, unflinching honesty that prefigures decades of literary introspection.\n\nBellow's prose is precise and intellectually restless, weaving philosophical inquiry into the fabric of everyday frustration, loneliness, and alienation — themes that would come to define his celebrated career and earn him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. Dangling Man stands as a foundational text of American existentialist fiction, drawing inevitable comparisons to Dostoevsky's underground man while remaining distinctly and urgently American in its anxieties. Compact yet profound, it leaves the reader asking a deeply unsettling question: when all obligation is stripped away, what does freedom actually feel like?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269344993499,"sku":"2026200016888-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b72418f0-f5ff-4697-9e24-5b0acd6e58f7.png?v=1788998903","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016888-secondhand-dangling-man","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}