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Seize the Day
Saul Bellow
出版
Penguin UK
, 2018-10-18
主題
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / General
ISBN
0141913754
9780141913759
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WVJyDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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 ...