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Social life and customs, Translations into Russian, Psychology, Middle aged men
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.
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Intimate, prestige, character-led and contemplative.
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On Open Library, 6 have read it and 59 want to.
“When it came to concealing his troubles, Tommy Wilhelm was not less capable than the next fellow.”
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts.[2] He is the only writer to have won the National Book Award three times, and the only writer to have been nominated for it six times. Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Bellow
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