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John Yossarian, the reluctant bombardier and principled antihero of Catch- 22, is back, older -- he is 68 -- and still trying to convince doctors -- this time at a posh Manhattan hospital rather than at a military clinic on the Italian island of Pianosa -- that he is sick. Yossarian remains wary and weary of a world that holds out the prospect of his own death: "I wish the daily newspapers were smaller and came out weekly." After successful careers in advertising and on Wall Street, he does consulting work for Catch-22's amoral entrepreneur, Milo Minderbinder. Milo, no surprise, now owns...
JOSEPH HELLER has been on an odyssey for the last 13 years. Since Catch-22 was published in 1961 he has been on a voyage through uncharted waters far from the Mediterranean island of Pianosa, the setting for his World War II novel. His voyage in Something Happened takes him through the psyche of one man, Robert Slocum. And like Ulysses, sleeping under a pile of leaves, like an ember buried beneath ashes, a small seed of light from his previous work has survived. The bright, animated fires of Catch-22 have died down, but now a new fire...
...presents an astute observation on the effects of the corporate state upon individuals. It presents an island of the mind overcome by the enemy within oneself, just as Yossarian was threatened by both Americans and Germans in Catch-22. Heller deserves his homecoming after his long journey from Pianosa and he's entitled to recognition...
...setting is the tiny island of Pianosa, just south of Elba, in the final months of World War II. Here the Army Air Forces maintains a bomber squadron, but it is a squadron that never was or could have been on land, sea or air. For Author Heller has peopled his first novel with madmen-not routine flyboy madmen, but men whose every act is exuberantly, viciously, tragically irrational...
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