Now and Then From Coney Island to Here
, by HELLER, JOSEPHNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780375700552 | 0375700552
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/26/1999
From the author of two of our most legendary novels,Catch-22andSomething 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.