Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller Was Dad, the Apthorp was Home, and Life Was a Catch-22
✍ Scribed by Heller, Erica
- Book ID
- 109046979
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 5 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781439197684
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
THROUGHOUT ERICA HELLERS LIFE, when people learned that Joseph Heller was her father, they often remarked, How terrific! But was there a catch? Like his most famous work, her father was a study in contradictions: eccentric, brilliant, and voracious, but also mercurial, competitive, and stubborn, with a love of mischief that sometimes cut too close to the bone. Being raised by such a larger than- life personality could be claustrophobic, even at the sprawling Upper West Side apartments of the Apthorp, which the Hellers called homein one way or anotherfor forty-five years.
Yossarian Slept Here is Erica Hellers wickedly funny but also poignant and incisive memoir about growing up in a familyher iconic father; her wry, beautiful mother, Shirley; her younger brother, Ted; her relentlessly inventive grandmother Dottiethat could be by turns caring, infuriating, and exasperating, though anything but dull. From the forbidden pleasures of ordering shrimp cocktai...