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Seize the Day

Saul Bellow

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#3110 of 8,085 books · #1504 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (1957).

Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as 'the type that loses the girl') and in a financial mess. In the course of one climactic day he reviews his past mistakes and spiritual malaise, until a mysterious, philosophizing con man grants him a glorious, illuminating moment of truth and understanding, and offers him one last hope.

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Publisher
Penguin UK
ISBN-13
9780141913759
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Midlife crisis and failureFather-son conflictSearch for meaning and identity

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