Seize the day

Description:

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.

subjects: Social life and customs,  Translations into Russian,  Psychology,  Middle aged men,  Fiction in English,  Fiction,  Jewish men,  open_syllabus_project,  Middle-aged men,  American fiction,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  New york (n.y.), fiction,  Fortune,  Fathers and sons,  Sales personnel,  Psychological fiction,  Hommes d'âge moyen,  Romans, nouvelles,  Roman américain

People: Tommy Wilhelm

Places: New York (N.Y.),  New York (State),  United States,  New York

Times: mid 20th century