Seize the Day (novel)

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Seize the Day

First edition
Author	Saul Bellow
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Viking
Publication date	November 15, 1956[1]
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages	128

Seize the Day, first published in 1956, is Saul Bellow's fourth novel. It was adapted into the film of the same name.

Synopsis[]

The story centers on a day in the life of Wilhelm Adler (a.k.a. Tommy Wilhelm), a failed actor in his forties. Wilhelm is unemployed, impecunious, separated from his wife (who refuses to agree to a divorce), and estranged from his children and his father, although he lives in the same Broadway hotel as the old man, a highly regarded former doctor. He is stuck with the same immaturity and lack of insight which has brought him to failure. In Seize the Day Wilhelm experiences a day of reckoning as he is forced to examine his life and to finally accept the "burden of self."

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