Now and Then

From Coney Island to Here

By: Joseph Heller

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Paperback | 26 January 1999

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272 Pages

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20.32 x 12.07 x 1.27

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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.

Industry Reviews

"Lovely, the best writing Heller has done since the book that made him famous.... A joy." --Washington Post Book World "Mouthwatering, elegantly written, lovingly detailed." --The New York Times Book Review

"A lovely, moving, affirming, celebratory work of courage, clarity, insight and joy."--The Sun [Baltimore]

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