Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller was Dad and Life was a Catch-22 - Softcover
'You're Joseph Heller's daughter? How terrific!'
But was there a catch?
Like his most famous work, Joseph Heller was a study in contradictions: eccentric, brilliant and voracious, but also mercurial, competitive, and stubborn, with a love of mischief that sometimes cut too close to the bone. Yossarian Slept Here is a daughter's darkly funny, poignant memoir about growing up a Heller - from her colourful family members and her parents' tumultuous marriage, to her father's celebrity friends and the family's eccentric neighbours.
This is a story about achieving a dream, about fame and its aftermath, about squandered opportunities, lasting love and family.
But was there a catch?
Like his most famous work, Joseph Heller was a study in contradictions: eccentric, brilliant and voracious, but also mercurial, competitive, and stubborn, with a love of mischief that sometimes cut too close to the bone. Yossarian Slept Here is a daughter's darkly funny, poignant memoir about growing up a Heller - from her colourful family members and her parents' tumultuous marriage, to her father's celebrity friends and the family's eccentric neighbours.
This is a story about achieving a dream, about fame and its aftermath, about squandered opportunities, lasting love and family.
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"A finely crafted, wonderfully observed reminiscence on an extraordinary, often traumatic life" (Independent on Sunday)
"An affectionate, no-punches-pulled, often hilarious memoir" (Herald)
"Both charming and combative" (New York Times)
"As soon as I read the opening I was determined and eager to consume everything that followed, up to and including the Pot Roast" (Christopher Hitchens, author of Hitch-22)
"Heller's domestic side is evoked with painful detail by his daughter, Erica, in her well written, occasionally harrowing memoir, Yossarian Slept Here" (Sunday Times)
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"An affectionate, no-punches-pulled, often hilarious memoir" (Herald)
"Both charming and combative" (New York Times)
"As soon as I read the opening I was determined and eager to consume everything that followed, up to and including the Pot Roast" (Christopher Hitchens, author of Hitch-22)
"Heller's domestic side is evoked with painful detail by his daughter, Erica, in her well written, occasionally harrowing memoir, Yossarian Slept Here" (Sunday Times)
A fascinating, moving and witty memoir by Joseph Heller's daughter, about life with her famous father.
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- Publication date2011
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- ISBN 13 9780099570080
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