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Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here

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Availability:In StockContributor:Joseph HellerPublish date:1999-01-26Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375700552ISBN-10:375700552UPC:9780375700552Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Historical, Personal MemoirsSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCXGNECPG4
From the author of two of our most legendary novels, Catch-22 and Something
Happened
, comes a slyly funny, vastly revelatory memoir that is at once a loving
evocation of a lost America and an exploration of the frontier where life turns
into literature.

Now and Then follows Joseph Heller from his fatherless childhood on the
boardwalks of Depression-era Coney Island, where he grew up amid the rumble of
the Cyclone and the tantalizing aroma of Mrs. Shatzkin's knishes. It offers a
dizzying bombardier's-eye view of the sky over wartime Italy, where Heller
encountered the characters and incidents he would later translate into Catch-22.
It depicts a writer coming to terms with both rejection and celebrity. Here, in
short, is a life filled with incident and insight, recollected with subversive
humor, exquisite timing, and a fine appreciation for the absurd.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375700552ISBN-10:375700552UPC:9780375700552Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Historical, Personal MemoirsSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCXGNECPG4
Joseph Heller lives in East Hampton, New York.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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