{"product_id":"seize-the-day-paperback","title":"Seize the Day - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSaul Bellow\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCynthia Ozick\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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 it.\" -\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 cast 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.... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction by Cynthia Ozick. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSaul Bellow \u003c\/b\u003ewas praised for his vision, his ear for detail, his humor, and the masterful artistry of his prose. Born of Russian Jewish parents in Lachine, Quebec in 1915, he was raised in Chicago. He received his Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1937, with honors in sociology and anthropology, and did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin. During the Second World War he served in the Merchant Marines. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis first two novels, \u003cb\u003eDangling Man\u003c\/b\u003e (1944) and \u003cb\u003eThe Victim\u003c\/b\u003e (1947) are penetrating, Kafka-like psychological studies. In 1948 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and spent two years in Paris and traveling in Europe, where he began his picaresque novel \u003cb\u003eThe Adventures of Augie March\u003c\/b\u003e, which went on to win the National Book Award for fiction in 1954. His later books of fiction include \u003cb\u003eSeize the Day\u003c\/b\u003e (1956); \u003cb\u003eHenderson the Rain King\u003c\/b\u003e (1959); \u003cb\u003eMosby's Memoirs and Other Stories\u003c\/b\u003e (1968); \u003cb\u003eMr. Sammler's Planet\u003c\/b\u003e (1970); \u003cb\u003eHumboldt's Gift\u003c\/b\u003e (1975), which won the Pulitzer Prize; \u003cb\u003eThe Dean's December\u003c\/b\u003e (1982); \u003cb\u003eMore Die of Heartbreak\u003c\/b\u003e (1987); \u003cb\u003eTheft\u003c\/b\u003e (1988); \u003cb\u003eThe Bellarosa Connection\u003c\/b\u003e (1989);\u003cb\u003eThe Actual\u003c\/b\u003e (1996); \u003cb\u003eRavelstein\u003c\/b\u003e (2000); and, most recently, \u003cb\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/b\u003e(2001). Bellow has also produced a prolific amount of non-fiction, collected in \u003cb\u003eTo Jerusalem and Back\u003c\/b\u003e, a personal and literary record of his sojourn in Israel during several months in 1975, and \u003cb\u003eIt All Adds Up\u003c\/b\u003e, a collection of memoirs and essays. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBellow's many awards include the International Literary Prize for \u003cb\u003eHerzog\u003c\/b\u003e, for which he became the first American to receive the prize; the Croix de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, the highest literary distinction awarded by France to non-citizens; the B'nai B'rith Jewish Heritage Award for \"excellence in Jewish Literature\"; and America's Democratic Legacy Award of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the first time this award has been made to a literary personage. In 1976 Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature \"for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work.\"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 27, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Seize the Day\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5.6\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753761407264,"sku":"9780142437612","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/394666aa78949cb0f9a16f2bf8e3cbf0.webp?v=1780026968","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/seize-the-day-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}