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Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel Catch-22 , a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice.
Now and Then is Joseph Heller's 1998 memoir. The first half of the memoir focuses on Heller's childhood in Coney Island and is, in fact, as much about the place as it is about the man. Heller describes growing up, his mother and half-siblings in a fundamentally safe and fun neighborhood of punch ball, football , amusement park , and Nathan's ...
Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller.It is his debut novel.He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century, [3] it uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters.
Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man is a novel by American writer Joseph Heller, published posthumously in 2000. [1] [2] [3] It is his seventh novel.His final work, it depicts an elderly author as he tries to write a novel that is as successful as his earlier work, mirroring Heller's own career after the success of Catch-22.
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.
Capt. John Yossarian is a fictional character, the protagonist of Joseph Heller's satirical 1961 novel Catch-22 and its 1994 sequel Closing Time. In Catch-22 , Yossarian is a 28-year-old captain in the 256th Squadron of the Army Air Forces where he serves as a B-25 bombardier stationed on the small island of Pianosa off the Italian mainland ...
First Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's 1961 novel, Catch-22.As the mess officer of Yossarian's squadron, Minderbinder is an entrepreneur during World War II, "perhaps the best known of all fictional businessmen" in American literature. [1]
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