Closing Time The Sequel to Catch-22

A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classicCatch-22.InClosing Time,Joseph Heller returns to the characters ofCatch-22,now coming to the end of their lives and the century, as is the entire generation that fought in World War II: Yossarian and Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, and such newcomers as little Sammy Singer and giant Lew, all linked, in an uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but The End.Closing Timedeftly satirizes the realities and the myths of America in the half century since WWII: the absurdity of our politics, the decline of our society and our great cities, the greed and hypocrisy of our business and culture -- with the same ferocious humor asCatch-22.Closing Timeis outrageously funny and totally serious, and as brilliant and successful asCatch-22itself, a fun-house mirror that captures, at once grotesquely and accurately, the truth about ourselves.

Joseph Heller, whose novel Catch-22 has sold more than 10 million copies, is the author of five other bestselling books. He lives in East Hampton, New York.