Closing Time
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 Cat…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4711-4791-3
- EAN: 9781471147913
- Produktnummer: 20073272
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 464 S.
- Masse: H13.2 cm x B19.8 cm x D3.3 cm 504 g
- Gewicht: 504
Über den Autor
Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn in 1923. He began his career with short stories but won immediate acclaim with CATCH-22 in 1961. He went on to write SOMETHING HAPPENED, GOOD AS GOLD, GOD KNOWS, PICTURE THIS, CLOSING TIME (the sequel to CATCH-22) and PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST AS AN OLD MAN. Heller died in December 1999.
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