Seize the Day

by Saul Bellow Narrated by Grover Gardner

Overview

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.

Editorial Reviews

Alfred Kazin

It is the special distinction of Mr. Bellow as a novelist that he is able to give us, step by step, the world we really live each day -- and in the same movement to show us that the real suffering of not understanding, the deprivation of light. It is this double gift that explains the unusual contribution he is making to our fiction.
— The New York Times, 1956

From the Publisher

By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Recommended for Discussion by the Great Books Foundation

“Though Bellow grew up in Chicago, his portrayals of New York are masterful. . . . I read Seize the Day when I was right out of high school, and it molded my picture of the city to which I would move a few years later.” —Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, in The New York Times

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169924077
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	07/16/2010
Edition description:	Unabridged

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