AUGUST BOOK
August's book will be Seize the Day (https://www.amazon.com/Seize-Penguin-Classics-Saul-Bellow/dp/0142437611/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3RQUBQY45VYYZ&keywords=seize+the+day+saul+bellow&qid=1563946439&s=gateway&sprefix=seize+th%2Caps%2C434&sr=8-1 ) by the American Nobel laureate Saul Bellow (who was actually born in Lachine, Quebec). You can join our group of dedicated bibliophiles on the evening of Tuesday, August 6 at the splendiferous Sylvia Hotel Lounge, commencing at 7pm. Summer evenings at the Sylvia, overlooking English Bay, are a quintessential Vancouver experience.
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 cast 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….
