Description
A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22.Joseph Heller revisits the unforgettable characters of Catch-22, now facing the twilight of their lives and the end of the century. The generation that fought in World War II–Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, along with newcomers little Sammy Singer and giant Lew–are bound together in uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but the inevitability of The End. Closing Time deftly satirizes the realities and the myths of postwar America with the same ferocious humor as his masterpiece, Catch-22, exploring the absurdity of our politics, the decline of our society and great cities, and the greed and hypocrisy at the heart of our business and culture. Outrageously funny yet deadly serious, and as brilliant as Catch-22 itself, Closing Time is a fun-house mirror reflecting, at once grotesquely and accurately, who we truly are.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Joseph Heller
Published: 09/15/1995
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780684804507
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 1.40″ H x 8.20″ L x 5.50″ W
About the Author
Heller, Joseph: – 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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