Pub Date: October 1, 2006
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2006045783
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: 18 to UP
Physical Info: 0.41" H x 7.84" L x 5.04" W ( 0.29 lbs) 160 pages
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Literary | Psychological | Epistolary Letters Diaries etc
Series: Penguin Classics
Description: 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.
Review Quotes: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
"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