Closing Time: The Sequel to Catch-22

Heller, Joseph

ISBN 10: 0684804506 / ISBN 13: 9780684804507

Verlag: Simon & Schuster, 1995

Beschreibung

A well-loved companion. Corners and cover might show a little wear, and you could find some notes or highlights. The dust jacket might be MIA, it might have been a library book and extras arenâ t guaranteedâ but the storyâ s all there!

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers PKV.0684804506.G

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Closing Time: The Sequel to Catch-22
• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0684804506
• ISBN-13: 9780684804507
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: good

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Inhaltsangabe

A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22.

In Closing Time, Joseph Heller returns to the characters of Catch-22, now coming to the end of their lives and the century, as is the entire generation that fought in World War II: Yossarian and Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, and such newcomers as little Sammy Singer and giant Lew, all linked, in an uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but The End. Closing Time deftly satirizes the realities and the myths of America in the half century since WWII: the absurdity of our politics, the decline of our society and our great cities, the greed and hypocrisy of our business and culture -- with the same ferocious humor as Catch-22.
Closing Time is outrageously funny and totally serious, and as brilliant and successful as Catch-22 itself, a fun-house mirror that captures, at once grotesquely and accurately, the truth about ourselves.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.