Joseph Heller
Now and Then
From Coney Island to Here
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From the author of two of our most legendary novels, Catch-22 and SomethingHappened, comes a slyly funny, vastly revelatory memoir that is at once a lovingevocation of a lost America and an exploration of the frontier where life turnsinto literature.Now and Then follows Joseph Heller from his fatherless childhood on theboardwalks of Depression-era Coney Island, where he grew up amid the rumble ofthe Cyclone and the tantalizing aroma of Mrs. Shatzkin's knishes. It offers adizzying bombardier's-eye view of the sky over wartime Italy, where Hellerencountered the characters and incidents he would later translate into Catch-22.It depicts a writer…
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From the author of two of our most legendary novels, Catch-22 and SomethingHappened, comes a slyly funny, vastly revelatory memoir that is at once a lovingevocation of a lost America and an exploration of the frontier where life turnsinto literature.Now and Then follows Joseph Heller from his fatherless childhood on theboardwalks of Depression-era Coney Island, where he grew up amid the rumble ofthe Cyclone and the tantalizing aroma of Mrs. Shatzkin's knishes. It offers adizzying bombardier's-eye view of the sky over wartime Italy, where Hellerencountered the characters and incidents he would later translate into Catch-22.It depicts a writer coming to terms with both rejection and celebrity. Here, inshort, is a life filled with incident and insight, recollected with subversivehumor, exquisite timing, and a fine appreciation for the absurd.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-375-70055-2
- EAN: 9780375700552
- Produktnummer: 19335454
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Über den Autor
Joseph Heller lives in East Hampton, New York.
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