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Title: Seize the Day (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow ISBN: 0-14-243761-1 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Birth Day
Comment: "Seize The Day" is about the day Tommy Wilhelm hit his financial and emotional bottom and emerges from a lifetime of confusion and failure to find his true self, his spiritual self. Bellow's novel of psycological introspection and intrege compelled this reader to examine his own life a little closer. Maybe you will be fascinated by doing the same.
Rating: 5
Summary: an agony to read about a loser losing
Comment: This is Bellow's paean to failure, the slow slide of a good-hearted though dumb and self-destructive man. He is heading to his doom, and is a sucker the whole way. Reading this is hard, much like the inexorable decline of people in a Balzac novel, but it is a peculiarly American brand of failure with the post-war culture and Hollywood dreams in tow. It is a masterpiece.
Recommended, but keep the valium handy.
Rating: 5
Summary: for bellow, this is the place to start
Comment: I generally agree with what the other reviewers say about this book, though I'm not sure they appreciate the level of sympathy, and even love, Bellow has for his flawed creation (and Bellow's warmth is one of many things I love about him). I would add that this book is the best introduction to Bellow's work. Like Herzog and The Adventures of Augie March it is unarguably a classic of twentieth century literature; unlike them it's short and relatively straightforward, and once you see what the man can accomplish in a mere 115 pages you'll definitely be primed for more.
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Title: Rabbit, Run by John Updike ISBN: 0449911659 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow ISBN: 0142437298 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 25 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Saul Bellow ISBN: 0140189416 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Saul Bellow: Novels 1944-1953: Dangling Man, The Victim, and The Adventures of Augie March (Library of America, 141.) by Saul Bellow ISBN: 1931082383 Publisher: Library of America Pub. Date: 11 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: American Pastoral by Philip Roth ISBN: 0375701427 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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