Seize the Day - Saul Bellow - Books - Penguin Publishing Group - 9780142437612 - May 27, 2003
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“What makes all of this so remarkable is not merely Bellow?s eye and ear for vital detail. Nor is it his talent for exposing the innards of character in a paragraph, a sentence, a phrase. It is Bellow?s vision, his uncanny ability to seize the moment and to see beyond it.? –Chicago Sun-Times

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 cast 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….

This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction by Cynthia Ozick.

For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.



144 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 27, 2003
ISBN13 9780142437612
Publishers Penguin Publishing Group
Pages 144
Dimensions 130 × 198 × 10 mm   ·   113 g
Language English  
Contributor Cynthia Ozick

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