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As Good as Gold by Joseph Heller
Category: Fiction
Bruce Gold, a middle-aged, Jewish professor of English literature, finds himself on the brink of a golden career in politics -- and not a moment too soon, as Gold yearns for an opportunity to transform a less-than-picture-perfect life: His children think little of him, his intimidating father endlessly ...Show more
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library classics
A burlesque epic in the tradition of The Goo d Soldier Schweik, Catch-22 exposes the absurdity of war by applying its own demented logic to America''s involvement in Korea. '
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Category: Classics
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more
Catch-22: As recommended on BBC2's Between the Covers by Joseph Heller
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more
Catch-22 (TVTI) by Joseph Heller
Category: Fiction
HEDLEY THOMAS: (Investigative journalist, creator of the podcast 'Teacher's Pet' & friend of Bookoccino) "A classic I somehow failed to read until this year, but inspired by George Clooney’s TV series I took the plunge and was soon having many spontaneous laugh-out-loud moments. Incredibly funny wi ...Show more
Catch-22 (Vintage Classics) by Joseph Heller
Category: Classics
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICSBeautiful editions of great books to last a lifetimeA beautiful hardback edition of one of the most subversive novels ever written - reading Catch-22 is nothing less than a rite of passage.Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yos ...Show more
Catch-22 (Vintage Loves Film Classic) by Joseph Heller
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Loves Film Classic
Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, "Catch-22" is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him.
Closing Time by Joseph Heller
Category: Classics | Series: An American Classic
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. But this time they are fighting not the Germans, but The End. Closing Time deftly satirizes the realities and the myths of America post WWII ...Show more
Closing Time: The sequel to Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Category: Classics
A 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 chaplai ...Show more