Closing Time

The New York Times Contains a richness of tone and of human feeling…Powerful and disturbing.The Philadelphia Inquirer Score one for Joseph Heller…Closing Time is Heller’s best novel since Good as Gold.Carlin Romano The Philadelphia Inquirer Score one for Joseph Heller…Closing Time is Heller’s best novel since Good as Gold.Christopher Buckley The New Yorker A summing up by one of the last of the great writers of the Second World War generation…we can celebrate Catch-22’s anniversary by welcoming Yossarian, Sammy, Milo, Lew, Wintergreen, and Chaplain Tappman even as we take leave of them.Christopher Buckley, The New Yorker A summing up by one of the last of the great writers of the Second World War generation;…we can celebrate Catch-22’s anniversary by welcoming Yossarian, Sammy, Milo, Lew, Wintergreen, and Chaplain Tappman even as we take leave of them.Robert Pinsky The Washington Post A lively, brilliant and influential writer’s look back at the 20th-century American culture he has seen.Robert Pinsky, The Washington Post Manic, knockdown verbal comedy.

Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn in 1923. In 1961, he published Catch-22, which became a bestseller and, in 1970, a film. He went on to write such novels as Good as Gold, God Knows, Picture This, Closing Time, and Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. Heller died in 1999.