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Closing Time

The Sequel to Catch-22

Closing Time( )
Author: Heller, Joseph
ISBN:978-1-56895-282-6
Publication Date:Mar 1996
Publisher:Cengage Gale
Imprint:Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $40.70
Book Description:

More than three decades after 'Catch-22' captured the conscience and imagination of a generation, Joseph Heller has written the sequel to one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. CLOSING TIME revisits Yossarian, Milo Mindbender, Chaplain Tappman and many of the other unforgettable characters from Catch-22 ... now older, possibly wiser, and facing the end of a century and the closings of their own lives.

Book Details
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Literary
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):16 x 24.5 cm
Book Weight:0.3 Kilograms
Author Biography
Heller, Joseph (Author)
American novelist and dramatist Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on May 1, 1923. Heller started off his writing career by publishing a series of short stories, but he is most famous for his satirical novel Catch-22. Set in the closing months of World War II, Catch-22 tells the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who discovers the horrors of war and its aftereffects. This novel brought the phrase "catch-22," defined in Webster's Dictionary as "a situation presenting two equally undesirable alternatives," into everyday use. Heller wrote Closing Time, the sequel to Catch-22, in 1994. Other novels include As Good As Gold and God Knows. He also wrote No Laughing Matter, an account of his struggles with Guillain-Barr Syndrome, a neurological disorder, in 1986.

Thirty-five years after writing his first book, Heller wrote his autobiography, entitled Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here. In his memoirs, Heller reminisces about what it was like growing up in Coney Island in the 1930s and 1940s. On December 13, 1999, Heller died of a heart attack in his home on Long Island. His last novel, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man, was published shortly after his death.

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