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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100375400621
ISBN-139780375400629
eBay Product ID (ePID)1025370
Product Key Features
Book TitleNow and Then : from Coney Island to Here
Number of Pages259 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary, American / General, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year1998
GenreLiterary Criticism, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorJoseph Heller
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight18.9 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN97-049658
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"Lovely, the best writing Heller has done since the book that made him famous.... A joy." --Washington Post Book World "Mouthwatering, elegantly written, lovingly detailed." --The New York Times Book Review "A lovely, moving, affirming, celebratory work of courage, clarity, insight and joy."--The Sun [Baltimore] From the Trade Paperback edition., "Lovely, the best writing Heller has done since the book that made him famous.... A joy." --Washington Post Book World "Mouthwatering, elegantly written, lovingly detailed." --The New York Times Book Review "A lovely, moving, affirming, celebratory work of courage, clarity, insight and joy."--The Sun [Baltimore]
Dewey Decimal813/.54 B
SynopsisThe demented Army Air Force ofCatch-22, the lethal business world ofSomething Happened, the dysfunctional family ofGood as Gold-all these, we have assumed, had their roots in Joseph Heller's own past. Now, more than thirty-five years after the explosion ofCatch-22into the world's consciousness, Heller gives us his life. Here is his Coney Island childhood, down the block from the world's most famous amusement park. It was the height of the Depression, it was a fatherless family, yet little Joey Heller had a terrific time--on the boardwalk, in the ocean (dangerously out of his depth), playing follow-the-leader in and out of local bars, even in school. Then a series of jobs, from delivering telegrams (on his first bike) to working in a navy yard-until Pearl Harbor, the air force, Italy. And after the war, college (undreamed-of before the G.I. Bill), teaching, Madison Avenue, marriage, and-always-writing. And finally the spectacular success ofCatch-22, launching one of the great literary careers. The strengths ofNow and Thenlie in the energy, humor, and mischief that have characterized all of Heller's work, along with the dark undertones that lie beneath them. He brings back a Coney Island that is not only a symbol of fun and fantasy around the world but a vision of what seems today to have been a golden age of carefree innocence. For the first time, he writes about the people and the events, both tragic and hilarious, he was eventually to translate, inCatch-22, into such memorable characters as Hungry Joe, Orr, Major--de Coverley, Natel's whore, and (of course) Yossarian, and such moving and frightening scenes as the death of Snowden.Now and Thenis both an account of a remarkable life and a glimpse into the creative process of a major American writer.
LC Classification NumberPS3558.E476Z468 1998
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