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Synopsis
"Catch-22", published in 1961, captured the hilarious and tragic insanity of the times and galvanized the conscience of a generation. This - 33 years later - is the sequel which revisits the same characters, now older but not wiser.
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Review
Robert Pinsky, "The Washington Post"
Manic, knockdown verbal comedy.
"The New York Times"
Contains a richness of tone and of human feeling...Powerful and disturbing.
"The Philadelphia Inquirer"
Score one for Joseph Heller..."Closing Time" is Heller's best novel since "Good as Gold."
Robert Pinsky
"The Washington Post"
A lively, brilliant and influential writer's look back at the 20th-century American culture he has seen.
Christopher Buckley, "The New Yorker"
A summing up by one of the last of the great writers of
the Second World War generation; ...we can celebrate "Catch-22"'s anniversary by welcoming Yossarian, Sammy, Milo, Lew, Wintergreen, and Chaplain Tappman even as we take leave of them.
Carlin Romano
"The Philadelphia Inquirer"
Score one for Joseph Heller..."Closing Time" is Heller's best novel since "Good as Gold."
Christopher Buckley
"The New Yorker"
A summing up by one of the last of the great writers of the Second World War generation...we can celebrate "Catch-22'"s anniversary by welcoming Yossarian, Sammy, Milo, Lew, Wintergreen, and Chaplain Tappman even as we take leave of them.
Robert Pinsky, The Washington Post Manic, knockdown verbal comedy.
The New York Times Contains a richness of tone and of human feeling...Powerful and disturbing.
Robert Pinsky The Washington Post A lively, brilliant and influential writer's look back at the 20th-century American culture he has seen.
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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- PublisherScribner
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0684860198
- ISBN 13 9780684860190
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages576
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