Seize the Day

Seize the Day by Saul Bellow: Entirely set on one day in New York, this short novel focuses on a man in his mid-forties who is at the end of his rope—unemployed, seperated from his wife and children, badly in debt and facing the disdain of his father, who sees him as a failure. A chance encounter gives him the opportunity to make “barrels of money” in the stock market.