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Cover of Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller

Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller

✍ Scribed by Daugherty, Tracy

Book ID
108331522
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Tongue
en-US
Weight
497 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780312596859

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✦ Synopsis

In time for the 50th anniversary of Catch-22 , Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book), illuminates his most vital subject yet in this first biography of Joseph Heller.

Joseph Heller was a Coney Island kid, the son of Russian immigrants, who went on to great fame and fortune. His most memorable novel took its inspiration from a mission he flew over France in WWII (his plane was filled with so much shrapnel it was a wonder it stayed in the air). Heller wrote seven novels, all of which remain in print. Something Happened and Good as Gold, to name two, are still considered the epitome of satire. His life was filled with women and romantic indiscretions, but he was perhaps more famous for his friendships--he counted Mel Brooks, Zero Mostel, Carl Reiner, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, Mario Puzo, Dustin Hoffman, Woody Allen, and many others among his confidantes. In...

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