![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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.īack 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. Title: Closing Time Author: Heller, Joseph Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Simon and Schuster, London Publication Date: 1994. Now Heller has dared to write the sequel to his 10-million copy bestseller, using many of Catch-22's characters to deftly satirise the realities and the myths of America in the half century since they fought World War II. Yossarian returns - older, if not wiser - to face a new foe.Īn instant classic when published in 1961, Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' still ranks among the funniest - and most serious - novels ever written about war. Publication date 2016 Topics World War, 1939-1945 - Veterans - Fiction, Veterans Publisher London : Simon & Schuster UK Ltd. ![]() Thirty-three years and over ten million copies later. ![]()
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