114 pages
English language
Published May 27, 2003 by Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media.
114 pages
English language
Published May 27, 2003 by Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media.
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.