TY - BOOK AU - Bellow,Saul TI - Seize the Day U1 - 813.52 23 KW - Social Life and Customs KW - Translations into Russian KW - Psychology KW - Middle Aged Men KW - Fiction in English KW - Fiction KW - Jewish Men KW - Open_syllabus_project N1 - Work first published in 1956 N2 - is a man in his mid-forties, temporarily living in the Hotel Gloriana on the Upper West Side of New York City, the same hotel in which his father has taken residence for a number of years. He is out of place from the beginning, living in a hotel filled with elderly retirees and continuing throughout the novel to be a figure of isolation amidst crowds. The novella traverses one very important day in the life of this self-same Tommy Wilhelm: his "day of reckoning," so to speak ER -