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Closing Time : A Novel

Joseph Heller

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Darkly comic sequel to an American classic

Closing Time could be a good read for someone who enjoyed Catch-22 and wants to revisit the absurdity of war and life through the eyes of aging characters. With razor-sharp humor and satire, Joseph Heller deftly satirizes the realities and myths of America in the post-World War II era. Closing Time is both outrageously funny and thought-provoking, offering a mirror to our society's decline and hypocrisy. It is a must-read for those seeking a darkly comic and audaciously ambitious exploration of the human condition.

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Closing Time : A Novel

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ISBN: 9780671746049
Author: Joseph Heller
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date of Publication: 1994-10-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: War
Goodreads rating: 3.06
(rated by 5765 readers)

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

Darkly comic sequel to an American classic

Closing Time could be a good read for someone who enjoyed Catch-22 and wants to revisit the absurdity of war and life through the eyes of aging characters. With razor-sharp humor and satire, Joseph Heller deftly satirizes the realities and myths of America in the post-World War II era. Closing Time is both outrageously funny and thought-provoking, offering a mirror to our society's decline and hypocrisy. It is a must-read for those seeking a darkly comic and audaciously ambitious exploration of the human condition.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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