Joseph L. Heller, Author Simon & Schuster $24 (464p) ISBN 978-0-671-74604-9
Worked on for many years and long anticipated (and perhaps dreaded) by admirers of the incomparable original, Heller's ``sequel'' shares with his great WWII saga a surreal sense of the absurd and of the fatuity of most human institutions. But it is...
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Joseph L. Heller, Author Simon & Schuster $16 (464p) ISBN 978-0-684-80450-7
Heller's sequel to his classic first novel, Catch-22, finds Yossarian and company again surrounded by greed, violence and insanity, this time in contemporary New York. (Sept.)
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Joseph L. Heller, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24 (240p) ISBN 978-0-375-40062-9
Heller (Catch-22) is always worth reading, but this not-quite-chronological memoir--mostly concerning his youth--seems a bit deceiving. Though the book is not presented as the first volume of an autobiography, at about page 195 Heller offhandedly...
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Joseph L. Heller, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0200-8
This slim posthumous novel, playing blithely with the idea of an elderly novelist in search of a subject, is the last thing the author of Catch-22 left us. Although not a profound leave-taking, it is nonetheless a pleasant reminder of the author's...
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Joseph L. Heller, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-13355-8
In a radical departure, Heller has concocted a clever, strange piece of experimental historical fiction. As the novel begins, slovenly, debt-ridden Rembrandt van Rijn is painting his now-famous Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. Suddenly, we
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Joseph L. Heller, Author, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Editor, Park Bucker, Editor . Simon & Schuster $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4374-2
This posthumous collection of Heller's writings combines his published stories with five previously unpublished ones, along with several essays about the writing of—and fallout from—Catch-22
and a play based on that novel. The...
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Joseph L. Heller, Author, Speed Vogel, With Plume Books $12.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-55611-424-3
Heller's much-admired account of his battle with the neurological disorder Guillain-Barre syndrome was first published in 1986. (Jan.)
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Joseph L. Heller, Author, Speed Vogel, Author Putnam Publishing Group $2.98 (335p) ISBN 978-0-399-13086-1
In alternating chapters, Heller and Vogel recount Heller's bout with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a paralyzing affliction that struck him in 1981, from which he has now recovered. The two voices blend magnificentlythe authors have been friends for 25...
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