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...Dalton, Cole made two good friends. He grew so close to one, Jon Heller, that they shared a page in their high school year-book...
...Cole and Heller didn't always get along. Heller calls his high school friend "a very difficult person." But they seem to have shared a desire to beat the system. With the Guinness Book of World Records, they saw an opportunity...
Books: Joseph Heller revisits Catch...
...news that Joseph Heller was writing a sequel to Catch-22, some 33 years after the fiction, prompted two reactions. One can be summarized, roughly, as Oh, goody. The other takes a bit longer. How desperate for inspiration and sales must Heller be to hitch a ride on a tour de force postwar American novel, even if he did write the original himself...
...although not quite as fresh and sassy as the first time around. Thanks in no small part to Heller's first novel, portraying those in authority as mendacious poltroons now seems unnecessary, since they are so prone to do so in their own words and deeds. But wrapped around the Yossarian/Milo plots are some moving stories of other World War II veterans approaching death and looking back on a vanishing American landscape of hope. When Closing Time is not trying to be funny, it is genuinely serious...