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Seize the Day

20 Ratings

3.5

Duration
3H 47min
Language
English
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Category

Classics

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 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.

© 2010 Blackstone Publishing (Audiobook): 9781481546058

Release date

Audiobook: 16 July 2010

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