Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo
Publisher: The Vanguard Press, 1944, New York

[Book #14057]

First Edition/First Printing in about Near Fine condition with area of abrasion on paste down in dustjacket with only minor wear. Minimal foxing of end papers and some discoloration along the spine;

Nobel Prize Laureate Saul Bellow's first novel, written in 1944, in the form of the journal of a young man waiting to be drafted. Due to a series of mix-ups, Joseph is facing a year of idleness. We witness his psychological reactions to his own inactivity while war rages around him and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice