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Closing Time

The Sequel to Catch-22

By Joseph Heller

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| Paperback | 9780684804507

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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: YossarianContinue

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.

Critics

  • Yossarian rides again

    ‘Logic is doubtless unshakeable,’ Joseph K. thinks towards the end of The Trial, ‘but it cannot withstand a man who wants to go on living.’ He is wrong, of course, since he is killed within a page by the brutal logic of the novel he is in. But there ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

  • Catch-23

    Thirty-three years ago Catch-22 brought an impudent new tone to American fiction; with considerable help from the Vietnam War and other lunacies, it conveyed a deeply distrustful sense of modern life, even for people who had never read it. Now its be ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Sun, 22 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 464 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0684804506
  • ISBN-13: 9780684804507
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Pub date: Sep 15, 1995
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette and Others
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