“joseph l heller”

This zany, sexy version of the story of King David, told as a modern allegory of what it is like for a Jew to survive in a hostile world, is "original, sad, wildly funny, and filled with roaring. . . . Heller's King David, a splendid creation, is not so much a man for all seasons as man in all his s... More

Catch-22 is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. National ads/media."Catch-22" is like no other novel. It is one of the funni... More

MEMOIRIt all began one typical day in the life of Joe Heller. He was jogging four miles at a clip these days, working on his novel "God Knows," coping with the complications of an unpleasant divorce, and pigging out once or twice a week on Chinese food with cronies like Mel Brooks, Mario Puzo, and h... More

Hilarious and tragic, at the heart of Catch –22 is a savage indictment of twentieth century madness, and a desire of the ordinary man to survive it. “The greatest satirical work in the English language since Erehwon” Philip Toynbee, Observer “Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically fu... More

Bob Slocum was a promising executive. He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, and as many mistresses as he desired. His life was settled and ordered; he had conformed and society demanded he be happy - or at least pretend to be, But the pretence was becoming more and more difficult,... More

"Heller once again comments on all of society and history with this whirlwind tour through the minds of Aristotle and Rembrandt. . . . History as told by Heller is so comic and heartbreaking that you wonder why anyone would want to live there."--"San Francisco Chronicle."Picture this: Rembrandt is c... More

Joseph Heller tells the story of the complex and often conflicting political calculations that led directly to the founding of the independent Jewish state of Israel in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. Examining the positions of many competing parties, he explains how and why the cha... More

The demented Army Air Force of Catch-22, the lethal business world of Something Happened, the dysfunctional family of Good 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 of Catch-22 into the world's consciousnes... More

More than 30 years after his Catch-22 so memorably--and hilariously--captured the ultimate absurdity of war, Heller brings his ferocious humor and intelligence to bear on what has happened since the Second World War, revisting many of the original characters, now older, if not wiser.A darkly comic a... More

Hailed as "one of the important books of our generation" by the "Chicago Sun-Times", this hilarious story of middle-aged English professor Dr. Bruce Gold and his encounter with White House politics takes readers into the heart of the Jewish experience in contemporary America.Bruce Gold, a middle-age... More