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Conjured back to life by Rembrandt's famous "Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer," Aristotle surveys history and profiles historical personalities, ultimately concluding that not much has changed in 2,500 years
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"San Francisco Chronicle"
The author of the outrageous classic "Catch-22" once again comments on all of society and history with this whirlwind tour through the minds of Aristotle and Rembrandt. Their vastly different worlds are not so very different from each other, or for that matter, from our own world. History as told by Heller is so comic and heartbreaking that you wonder why anyone would want to live there.
Doris Lessing
"Vogue"
Pure renegade Heller -- at best, as sharp (and thoroughly American) as Lizzie Borden's axe.
"Chicago Sun-Times"
Ingenious -- another new kind of novel: intelligent and written with grace....A fiction to appreciate and ponder.
"The New York Times Book Review"
Mr. Heller treats the whole panorama of history past and present with the bravado of Mark Twain in one of his sassier moods.
Rita Mae Brown
Chimerical, political, and funny, "Picture This" is a novel with fangs....His flashiest since "Catch-22."
Doris Lessing I think "Picture This" is brilliant. It has the astringency and wit of "Catch-22, " matured.
Rita Mae Brown Chimerical, political, and funny, "Picture This" is a novel with fangs....His flashiest since "Catch-22."
"Chicago Sun-Times" Ingenious -- another new kind of novel: intelligent and written with grace....A fiction to appreciate and ponder.
"Vogue" Pure renegade Heller -- at best, as sharp (and thoroughly American) as Lizzie Borden's axe.
About the Author
Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn in 1923. In 1961, he published Catch-22, which became a bestseller and, in 1970, a film. He went on to write such novels as Good as Gold, God Knows, Picture This, Closing Time, and Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. Heller died in 1999.
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- PublisherPutnam Pub Group
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0399133550
- ISBN 13 9780399133558
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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