Seize the Day (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Saul Bellow
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: 1950’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Parents and children, New York City, Alienation, Fathers, Money
- Locales: Manhattan, NY, Los Angeles, CA, Brooklyn, NY
Places Discussed
*Manhattan. Borough of New York City in which most of the novella’s action takes place, particularly among the fashionable neighborhoods near Broadway in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. During a single day, Tommy Wilhelm remembers growing up in his family home on West End Avenue, visits the brokerage house where his commodities are losing value, eats lunch with Dr. Tamkin in a nearby cafeteria, takes old Mr. Rappaport to a cigar store—all familiar locations on the Upper West Side in the 1950’s.
Gloriana. Aging Manhattan hotel. The major characters...
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