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 placed 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 ...
- ISBN10 0670631760
- ISBN13 9780670631766
- Publish Date 15 November 1956
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 March 2021
- Imprint Viking Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Language English