- Middle-aged men, Veterans, World War, 1939-1945, Fiction
In a novel as darkly comic and audaciously ambitious as was Catch-22, Joseph Heller has dared to write the sequel to his American classic, using many of Catch-22's characters, now older if not wiser, to deftly satirize the realities and the myths of America in the half century since they fought World War II.
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Comic, prestige, nostalgic and meticulous.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- rawmeticulous
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Joseph Heller
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 464
- Publisher
- BCA, Simon & Schuster, Xing guang chu ban she
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- Chinese, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780684804507
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“When people our age speak of the war it is not of Vietnam but of the one that broke out more than half a century ago and swept in almost all the world.”
An American satirical novelist, short story writer and playwright.
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