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Dangling Man

Take a man waiting - waiting between the two worlds of civilian life and the army, suspended between two identities - and you have a man who, perhaps for the first time in his life, is really free. However, freedom can be a noose around a man's neck.

Themes
Jewish
Subject
philosophy
Audience
adult
Length
short · 191 pages

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