Description
Saul Bellow's debut novel—the compressed, formally intense diary of a man waiting to be drafted into the Second World War and discovering in the enforced idleness of waiting the full complexity of what it means to be responsible for oneself—announced the arrival of one of the twentieth century's great literary intelligences. Written with the philosophical seriousness and the genuine psychological acuity that would characterize all his finest work, this is essential reading for every admirer of Bellow's extraordinary body of work and every lover of American literary fiction at its most intellectually serious. An important debut.
