Seize the Day (Pneguin Classics)

Fading charmer Tommy Willhelm 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 and in a financial mess. In the course of one climatic 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...