Mulholland Books, 2016. — 26 p. — ASIN B01FQLZRZU In a small town in the American South, it is night in the middle of the twentieth century. Carter, a high-school teacher and football coach in the newly desegregated schools, is awaiting news of two of his students who have been in a serious altercation. Outside the building where Carter has kept his vigil, a crowd of townspeople...
1991. Catch-22 is a satirical historical novel by the American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953, and the novel was first published in 1961. It is set during World War II in 1943 and is frequently cited as one of the great literary works of the twentieth century.
Simon & Schuster, 2004. — 453 p. — ISBN: 0684833395 (ISBN13: 9780684833392) The novel is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944. It mainly follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th Squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea, west of Italy. The...
Simon & Shuster, 1994.
Closing Time is a 1994 novel by Joseph Heller, written as a sequel to the popular Catch-22 . It takes place in New York City in the 1990s, and revisits some characters of the original, including Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder and Chaplain Tappman.
Knopf, 1984. — 353 p. — ISBN: 0394529197 (ISBN13: 9780394529196) Joseph Heller's powerful, wonderfully funny, deeply moving novel is the story of David--yes, King David, but as you've never seen him before. We already know David as the warrior king of Israel, husband of Bathsheba, and father of Solomon; now meet David, the cocky Jewish kid, the plagiarized poet, the Jewish...
Simon Schuster, 2000. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0684868199 (ISBN13: 9780684868196) The novel is an eclectic journey across three historical periods, all connected by Rembrandt van Rijn's painting, Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer. With constant reflection between the different eras, we jump back & forth between the time of Aristotle, Rembrandt & Heller: the Golden Age of Athens,...
Simon & Schuster, 1997. — 576 p. — ISBN: 0684841215 (ISBN13: 9780684841212) Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened....
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf. — ISBN: 0-394-46568-7. Something Happened is Joseph Heller's second novel (published in 1974, thirteen years after Catch-22 ). Its main character and narrator is Bob Slocum, a businessman who engages in a stream of consciousness narrative about his job, his family, his childhood, his sexual escapades, and his own psyche.
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