num_pages: 118
description: Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereFading 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 ...
language: English
title: Seize the Day
titlecomplete: Seize the Day
characters: Wilhelm Adler
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Nobel Prize, New York, Fiction, Novella
ratings_count: 12156
places: New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: -410198400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd