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In Saul Bellow's title novella, Tommy Wilhelm, at 42, is in the midst of what seems to be a serious decline. He is separated from his wife and family, estranged from his father, unemployed, and broke. Over the course of one day, Tommy reviews the shape of his past and attempts to plot the course of his future--and has a valuable moment of insight when he aimlessly drifts into the funeral of a man he doesn't know. SEIZE THE DAY is a bleak, compassionate tale, widely considered one of Bellow's best novels. Accompanying it are three short stories and a one-act play.
| Details | | Series: | Penguin Classics Series |
| Size | | Height: | 7.5 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.2 in | | Weight: | 4.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Although the different things in the book are by no means on the same level, the title story seems to me the most moving single piece of fiction that this young author has as yet written. It is all the more interesting because there is a plainness of feeling in it that contrasts sharply with the keyed-up virtuosity and the defiant humor of his long novel, THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH."
Kazin
"In form spare and compact and tightly organized, it is a sorrow-filled book....Was the claustrophobic chronicle of failure that is SEIZE THE DAY undertaken as a grim corrective to the fervor informing its irrepressible predecessor, as the antidote to AUGIE MARCH's manic openness?"
New Yorker - Philip Roth (10/09/2000)
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