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Seize the Day
Seize the Day
Author: Saul Bellow
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...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780142437612
ISBN-10: 0142437611
Publication Date: 5/27/2003
Pages: 144
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2.9 stars, based on 11 ratings
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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Helpful Score: 1
Fabulous novella. Not only does the main character regret the decisions he's made in his life, but he finds no sympathy from his family, either. He's on the verge of tears throughout the whole story, and you know it's coming, and you know it's going to be heartbreaking.
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Typical Sardonic Saul Bellow style...a quick read.
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A classic.
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Well written, but more of a character study than anything else. I expected more, so was disappointed. My first Bellow, so perhaps I don't have a sense of this work as part of the oeuvre yet...


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