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ReviewsCarlin RomanoThe Philadelphia InquirerScore one for Joseph Heller...Closing Timeis Heller's best novel sinceGood as Gold., Robert Pinsky The Washington Post A lively, brilliant and influential writer's look back at the 20th-century American culture he has seen., Christopher BuckleyThe New YorkerA summing up by one of the last of the great writers of the Second World War generation...we can celebrateCatch-22's anniversary by welcoming Yossarian, Sammy, Milo, Lew, Wintergreen, and Chaplain Tappman even as we take leave of them., Christopher Buckley, The New Yorker A summing up by one of the last of the great writers of the Second World War generation;...we can celebrate Catch-22 's anniversary by welcoming Yossarian, Sammy, Milo, Lew, Wintergreen, and Chaplain Tappman even as we take leave of them., Robert PinskyThe Washington PostA lively, brilliant and influential writer's look back at the 20th-century American culture he has seen., The Philadelphia InquirerScore one for Joseph Heller...Closing Timeis Heller's best novel sinceGood as Gold., Christopher Buckley,The New YorkerA summing up by one of the last of the great writers ofthe Second World War generation;...we can celebrateCatch-22's anniversary by welcoming Yossarian, Sammy, Milo, Lew, Wintergreen, and Chaplain Tappman even as we take leave of them., The Philadelphia Inquirer Score one for Joseph Heller... Closing Time is Heller's best novel since Good as Gold., Carlin Romano The Philadelphia Inquirer Score one for Joseph Heller... Closing Time is Heller's best novel since Good as Gold., Christopher Buckley The New Yorker A summing up by one of the last of the great writers of the Second World War generation...we can celebrate Catch-22' s anniversary by welcoming Yossarian, Sammy, Milo, Lew, Wintergreen, and Chaplain Tappman even as we take leave of them., The Philadelphia InquirerScore one for Joseph Heller...Closing Time is Heller's best novel since Good as Gold., Christopher Buckley,The New YorkerA summing up by one of the last of the great writers of the Second World War generation;...we can celebrateCatch-22's anniversary by welcoming Yossarian, Sammy, Milo, Lew, Wintergreen, and Chaplain Tappman even as we take leave of them.
SynopsisA darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22. 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. 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 -- with the same ferocious humor as Catch-22. Closing Time is outrageously funny and totally serious, and as brilliant and successful as Catch-22 itself, a fun-house mirror that captures, at once grotesquely and accurately, the truth about ourselves., A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classicCatch-22. InClosing Time,Joseph Heller returns to the characters ofCatch-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.Closing Timedeftly 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 -- with the same ferocious humor asCatch-22.Closing Timeis outrageously funny and totally serious, and as brilliant and successful asCatch-22itself, a fun-house mirror that captures, at once grotesquely and accurately, the truth about ourselves.