A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22. 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 ‚Äî with the same ferocious humor as Catch-22. Buy a cheap copy of Closing Time book by Joseph Heller. 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. Very minor foxing on the endpapers, otherwise internally in excellent condition – clean and tightly bound.CLOSING TIME by Joseph Heller - FIRST EDITION BOOK 1994 NY: Simon & Schusterįirst edition, first printing, mint, new/unread in a flawless dustjacket.Ī darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22. And Heller could easily reach back into his political memory to events such as the scandal involving CIA financing of journals like Encounter(reported in the Timesin 1966 and confirmed by an.

Outrageously funny and totally serious, and as brilliant and successful as “Catch-22” itself, “Closing Time” is a fun-house mirror that captures, at once grotesquely and accurately, the truth about ourselves.”Ĭondition: Dust and hardcover in very good condition with very minor shelf wear around the edges. Back again are characters familiar from “Catch-22,” including Yossarian and Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, and little Sammy Singer, as they come to the end of their lives and the end of the century - all linked, this time, in uneasy peace and old age…fighting not the Germans, but The End. In “Closing Time,” a comic masterpiece in its own right, Heller spears the inflated balloons of our national consciousness - the absurdity of our politics, the decline of society and our great cities, the greed and hypocrisy of our business and culture - with the same ferocious humor that he used against the conventional view of warfare.

Now Heller has dared to write the sequel to his 10-million copy bestseller, using many of “Catch-22″‘s characters to deftly satirize the realities and the myths of America in the half century since they fought World War II. An instant classic when published in 1961, Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22” still ranks among the funniest - and most serious - novels ever written about war.

Yossarian returns - older, if not wiser - to face a new foe. “Thirty-three years and over ten million copies later…the classic story continues.

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