Dangling Man, The Victim & Seize the Day [Hardcover] Saul Bellow

Description

This book contains three novels by Saul Bellow. The first is Dangling Man written in diary format, the story centers on the life of an unemployed young man named Joseph, his relationships with his wife and friends, and his frustrations with living in Chicago and waiting to be drafted. His diary serves as a philosophical confessional for his musings. It ends with his entrance into the army during World War II, and a hope that the regimentation of army life will relieve his suffering. Along with Bellow's second novel The Victim, it is considered his "apprentice" work and the third novel, Seize the Day in which the main character Wilhelm experiences a day of reckoning as he is forced to examine his life and to finally accept the "burden of self".