Seize the Day
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“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…
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1 author picked Seize the Day as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I grew up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. We lived above an all-purpose drugstore that included two aisles of paperback books.
Almost every day after school, that store became my own personal library. If were attracted by a particular title or cover, it would wind up in my to-buy list.
Seize the Day was one of those books. The protagonist is the hapless Tommy Wilhelm, a small-time loser who spends his life trying to impress his big-shot father (think Willie Loman only less successful).
Desperately trying to make something of himself that his father can be proud of, Wilhelm gets…
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