Seize the Day (Penguin Modern Classics)
Seize the Day (Penguin Modern Classics) by Saul Bellow
English | August 31, 2011 | ISBN: 014118485X | EPUB | 144 pages | 0.7 MB
English | August 31, 2011 | ISBN: 014118485X | EPUB | 144 pages | 0.7 MB
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.