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Closing Time
Автор: Joseph Heller Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2003 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20092006-09-14
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A reissue of the breath-taking sequel to CATCH-22 — now a classic in its own right. Forty-two years ago Joseph Heller wrote the 20th century masterpiece CATCH-22, capturing the hilarious and tragic insanity of the times and galvanising the conscience of a generation. In the sequel, CLOSING TIME, he revisits many of the characters — now older, if not wiser — that made CATCH-22 so unforgettable: Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder, Chaplain Tappman, Sammy Singer and giant Lew, all linked in uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but The End. CLOSING TIME is a stunning achievement; a chilling, darkly funny depiction of the moral collapse of the Western world.
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Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man
Автор: Joseph Heller Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2001 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20092002-06-18
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Novelist Eugene Pota is a cultural icon of the 20th century, struggling to write what will be the last novel of his career. But what to write about when, like so many noted authors before him, all of Pota's output since that first, landmark novel has been scrutinized, dissected — and found wanting?
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Closing Time: The Sequel to Catch-22
Автор: Joseph Heller Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 1995 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20091997-07-11
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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.
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Picture This
Автор: Joseph Heller Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2000 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20092003-04-15
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Picture this: Rembrandt is creating his famous painting of Aristotle contemplating the bust of Homer. As soon as he paints an ear on Aristotle, Aristotle can hear. When he paints an eye, Aristotle can see. And what Aristotle sees and hears and remembers from the ancient past to this very moment provides the foundation for this lighthearted, freewheeling jaunt through 2,500 years of Western Civilization. Picture This is an incisive fantasy that digs deeply into our illusions and customs. Nobody but Joseph Heller could have thought of a novel like this one. Nobody but Heller could have executed it so brilliantly.
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Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man
Автор: Joseph Heller Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2001 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20092002-06-18
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Imagine that the novelist — his name here is Eugene Pota — realizes that the days are dwindling and he needs to come up with one more novel. But what should he write? That first novel, the one that launched him, the one that made him into the cultural icon he seems fated to remain, has become a touchstone for his life, and his life since has pretty much been a critical failure. And now, when he is faced with the compulsion to write one more novel, to take a stab at the even bigger one, what should it be? Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man follows the journey that Eugene Pota undertakes as he sifts through the detritus of his life in an effort to settle on a subject for his final work. He talks to everyone, including his wife, his old lovers, and his editor. While everyone has ideas, no one offers any real answers. Written with sections that alternate between Pota's real-life efforts to settle on what novel to write and his many and various false starts writing that novel, Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man is a rare and enthralling look into the artist's search for creativity.
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Something Happened
Автор: Joseph Heller Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1995 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20091996-06-25
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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, as Slocum's discontent grew into an overwhelming sense of desolation, frustration and fear. And then something happened...
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Good As Gold
Автор: Joseph Heller Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 1997 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20091999-05-22
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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 bullies him, and his wife is so oblivious that she doesn't even notice he's left her. As funny as it is sad, “Good as Gold” is a story of children grown up, parents grown old, and friends and lovers grown apart — a story that is inimitably Heller.
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Catch-22
Автор: Joseph Heller Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20122015-08-03
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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.
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