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DANGLING MAN

1946rif. 1401173London UK: John Lehmann 1946. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo 191 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is tan with dark brown lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering price uncut: "8s.6d." on front flap has mild general soiling moderate general age-toning and sun-fading. Boards bound in publisher's bright yellow cloth have mild shelving wear along extremities mild bumping to fore corners and light warping along rear tail edge; spine mildly cocked. Textblock edges have mild age-toning and foxing tail edge has light waviness; interior endpapers have mild dampstaining along pastedowns mild bending wear along front free-endpaper fore edge and pp.43-58 mild general age-toning throughout text. Binding has mild surface tearing and splitting between front and rear endpapers mull partially exposed. CM Consignment. Shelved in Room Z. Canadian-American author Saul Bellow 1915-2005 first became a voracious reader out of boredom while enduring a period of childhood illness. Language would continue to entertain Bellow throughout his upbringing leading to his participation in the Federal Writers' Project during the Great Depression. Bellow completed DANGLING MAN his debut novel while serving with the merchant marine in World War II. The novel follows a young man in Chicago waiting to get drafted clearly influenced by Bellow's own experiences growing up in the interwar period in Midwestern America. Bellow wrote one other novel THE VICTIM 1947 before applying and being awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship which allowed him to travel to Paris where he started work on THE ADVENTURES OF AUGGIE MARCH 1953 Bellow's most widely acclaimed work that is still considered an American literary classic. He found massive success with the two publications that followed: HERZOG which was quick to chart best-seller lists and HUMBOLDT'S GIFT which won Bellow the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature. Despite being a frequent albeit Euro-centric traveler Bellow was not a believer in multiculturalism; his rivals included thinkers born of social movements such as feminism and post-modernism. Nonetheless his prose remains amongst the most highly regarded in 20th century literature: an illustrious career which began nearly 80 years ago with the publication of DANGLING MAN. 1401173. Special Collections - Upstairs. John Lehmann hardcover books