ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1958
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Saul Bellow - Seize The Day
Popular Library, 1958
189 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro, pečat na prvoj strani.

Deftly interweaving humor and pathos, Saul Bellow evokes in the climactic events of one day the full drama of one man`s search to affirm his own worth and humanity.

“What makes all of this so remarkable is not merely Bellow’s eye and ear for vital detail. Nor is it his talent for exposing the innards of character in a paragraph, a sentence, a phrase. It is Bellow’s vision, his uncanny ability to seize the moment and to see beyond it.” –Chicago Sun-Times

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 cast 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….


Fiction, Classics