Seize the Day

Saul Bellow

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Publisher:: Penguin Books Ltd, 04/2001
Binding:: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Language:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9780141184852
Item number:: 2196613
Volume:: 128 Pages
Weight:: 110 g
Format:: 195 x 128 mm
Thickness:: 14 mm
Release date:: 26.4.2001
Series:: Penguin Modern Classics
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Blurb

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 ...

Biography

Saul Bellow,geb. 1915 in Lachine/Quebec (Kanada) wuchs in Chicago auf. Er studierte Soziologie und Anthropologie und lehrte an verschiedenen Universitäten. Für sein umfangreiches literarisches Werk erhielt Saul Bellow zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, 1976 den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Bellow starb 2005 im Alter von 89 Jahren in Brookline / Mass.