Closing Time: The Sequel to Catch-22

Closing Time: The Sequel to Catch-22
by Joseph Heller

Closing Time: The Sequel to Catch-22
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Author: Joseph Heller
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1995-09-15
ISBN: 0684804506
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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Book Review: An unfortune novel
Summary: 1 Stars

Maybe it's because I loved 'Catch-22' so much, but this novel was nothing but a disappointment. This book would be poor as a stand alone work; as a sequel to the ground-breaking original, it's dreadful. We're presented with an older Yossarian, Chaplain and Milo, with no mention of what happened at the end of Catch-22. Readers are not told how Yossarian escaped from Italy, or his further adventures. The book varies between a dull pondering of the significance of war and an ill-advised turn to science fiction/fantasy. The plot revolves around a new US president who is a clear parody of former VP Dan Quayle. Since Quayle was a political non-entity by the time the book came out, 'Closing Time' because instantly dated. I would not recommend this for fans of 'Catch-22', or to anyone for that matter.

Summary of Closing Time: The Sequel to Catch-22

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 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.

Heller, Joseph Books

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