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CATCH-22 , published in 1961, immediately became a classic. It captured the hilarious and tragic insanity of the times and galvanised the conscience of a generation. Now Joseph Heller has written the sequel... Closing Time revisits many of the characters, now older if not wiser, that made Catch-22 so unforgettable, all linked in uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Ger CATCH-22 , published in 1961, immediately became a classic. It captured the hilarious and tragic insanity of the times and galvanised the conscience of a generation. Now Joseph Heller has written the sequel... Closing Time revisits many of the characters, now older if not wiser, that made Catch-22 so unforgettable, all linked in uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but The End. Closing Time is a stunning achievement, a work of breathtaking erudition, insight and inventiveness, chilling in its depiction of the moral collapse of the Western world as well as very funny in its black comedy.
CATCH-22 , published in 1961, immediately became a classic. It captured the hilarious and tragic insanity of the times and galvanised the conscience of a generation. Now Joseph Heller has written the sequel... Closing Time revisits many of the characters, now older if not wiser, that made Catch-22 so unforgettable, all linked in uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Ger CATCH-22 , published in 1961, immediately became a classic. It captured the hilarious and tragic insanity of the times and galvanised the conscience of a generation. Now Joseph Heller has written the sequel... Closing Time revisits many of... Read More