Critical Essays on Joseph Heller
Author | : James Nagel |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Nagel |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joseph Heller |
Publisher | : Dell |
Total Pages | : 627 |
Release | : 2011-09-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307803619 |
Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened. Something Happened is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controversial second novel satirizing business life and American culture. The story is told as if the reader was overhearing the patter of Bob Slocum's brain -- recording what is going on at the office, as well as his fantasies and memories that complete the story of his life. The result is a novel as original and memorable as his Catch-22.
Author | : David Seed |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 1989-06-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349200077 |
Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : 1438117094 |
Discusses the writing of Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Includes critical essays on the work and a brief biography of the author.
Author | : Judith Ruderman |
Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Briefly traces Heller's life, examines each of his novels, and looks at his role as a Jewish-American writer.
Author | : Robert Merrill |
Publisher | : Boston : Twayne Publishers |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
In this book, Merrill discusses the structure and theme of every Heller novel and play, and offers a number of original interpretations of Heller's writing. Merrill argues that too much has been made of the Jewishness of the two more recent novels, Good as Gold and God Knows. He adds that they are better understood as humanistic rather than sectarian novels. Merrill sees Heller as an isolated artist who has been influenced by few earlier writers and who has, in turn, exercised little influence on his contemporaries. Heller is portrayed by Merrill as writing in a vein of black humor that recalls Dostoevsky and Kafka rather than any more recent writers. ISBN 0-8057-7492-0: $17.95.
Author | : Joseph Heller |
Publisher | : Mulholland Books |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2016-12-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316361151 |
A masterful short story from the acclaimed author of Catch-22, about one long night of anticipation. In a small town in the American South, it is night in the middle of the twentieth century. Carter, a high-school teacher and football coach in the newly desegregated schools, is awaiting news of two of his students who have been in a serious altercation. Outside the building where Carter has kept his vigil, a crowd of townspeople have also gathered to keep watch. Carter must choose how much he wants to participate in the spectacle, and how much he can afford to keep his distance. "Almost Like Christmas" by Joseph Heller is one of 20 short stories within Mulholland Books's Strand Originals series, featuring thrilling stories by the biggest names in mystery from the Strand Magazine archives. View the full series list at mulhollandbooks.com and listen to them all!
Author | : Tracy Daugherty |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2011-08-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1429987847 |
The New York Times bestselling writer Tracy Daugherty illuminates his most vital subject yet in this first biography of the Catch-22 author Joseph Heller Joseph Heller was a Coney Island kid, the son of Russian immigrants, who went on to great fame and fortune. His most memorable novel took its inspiration from a mission he flew over France in WWII (his plane was filled with so much shrapnel it was a wonder it stayed in the air). Heller wrote seven novels, all of which remain in print. Something Happened and Good as Gold, to name two, are still considered the epitome of satire. His life was filled with women and romantic indiscretions, but he was perhaps more famous for his friendships—he counted Mel Brooks, Zero Mostel, Carl Reiner, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, Mario Puzo, Dustin Hoffman, Woody Allen, and many others among his confidantes. In 1981 Heller was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a debilitating syndrome that could have cost him his life. Miraculously, he recovered. When he passed away in 1999 from natural causes, he left behind a body of work that continues to sell hundreds of thousands of copies a year. Just One Catch is the first biography of Yossarian's creator.
Author | : Joseph Heller |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0684839741 |
Dr. Bruce Gold, a forty-eight-year-old Jewish professor of English, faces the possibilities of being appointed to a high State Department position and being disowned by his family.
Author | : Sanford Pinsker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
This updated edition includes new chapters on Closing Time, the sequel to Catch-22; Now and Then, Heller's memoir of growing up in Brooklyn; Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man, his posthumously published novel; and Catch as Catch Can, a collection of assorted short stories and sketches.