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Seize the Day
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
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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.
Saul Bellow (1915–2005), author of numerous novels, novellas, and stories, was the only novelist to receive three National Book Awards. He also received the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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- Mahmood
- 06-06-17
Worthy of All the Praise
Great characters and a fascinating story. Beautifully written. My first Saul Bellow read. I want more!
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- Mark
- 12-10-21
A Day in the Life...
This novel struck me as the execution of a technical experiment by the author to cram as much as possible into one day in the life of a not very pleasant lead character. As such it succeeds but he's such a self pitying loser that I felt no real sympathy for him and rather admired the old goat who fleeced him and the father and wife who despised him for his pathetic weakness.
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- Edward Crussell
- 24-11-21
poignant
existential dread, growing old, wasted time, a deep feeling of insignificance, and all that good stuff.
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-03-24
it's now been about 45 years.....
since I first read this minor caricature of the warts on the American dream. it is as easy to read today as it was then. this is a picture. of the here and now as experienced by the author and a marvellous benchmark for any son, perhaps a son smarting from the criticism of a father perhaps a little overzealous in preparing them from life once the father has moved on.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-01-23
my review a review by me
beautiful just brilliant and beautiful. nothing more to say other than that really beautiful.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-03-24
Just not my bag
Some things just aren’t for you, couldn’t vibe with much of anything in this to be honest
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- hfffoman
- 19-05-14
Slighly annoying book about very annoying people
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I can't say it isn't a good book. It is well written and insightful. It just isn't a great pleasure to read. The lead character is so unlikeable I found myself hoping he would have a heart attack and the book would end. The rest of the characters aren't much better. It is actually something of an achievement to cram so many character flaws into one short account
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