Seize the Day (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Bellow, Saul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014118485X ISBN 13: 9780141184852

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2001

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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 ...

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Saul Bellow's dazzling career as a novelist was celebrated during his lifetime with an unprecedented array of literary prizes and awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book Awards, and the Gold Medal for the Novel. In 1976 he was awarded a Nobel Prize 'for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work'.

Bellow's death in 2005 was met with tribute from writers and critics around the world, including James Wood, who praised 'the beauty of this writing, its music, its high lyricism, its firm but luxurious pleasure in language itself'.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 014118485X
• ISBN 13: 9780141184852
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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