Novels 1956-1964 opens with "Seize the Day", a tightly wrought novella that, unfolding over the course of a single devastating day, explores the desperate predicament of the failed actor and salesman Tommy Wilhelm. The austere psychological portraiture of Seize the Day is followed by an altogether different book, "Henderson the Rain King", the ebullient tale of the irresistible eccentric Eugene Henderson, best characterized by his primal mantra 'I want!
Celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of "The Adventures of Augie March," and reflects the mid-twentieth-century's psychological turmoil from more inhibited times in a volume that also includes "The Victim" and "Dangling Man.".
