{"product_id":"closing-time","title":"Closing Time","description":"\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1961, immediately became a classic. It captured the hilarious and tragic insanity of the times and galvanised the conscience of a generation.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNow, 33 years later, Joseph Heller has written the sequel. \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eClosing Time\u003c\/i\u003e revisits many of the characters, now older if not wiser, that made \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e so unforgettable, in a novel as gloriously crazy as it is cruelly sane.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e• Yossarian - suffering late-life depression at 68, still feisty and priapic as ever, is convinced he is under multiple-surveillance as New York degenerates into a peep-show of squalor and high-society voyeurism.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e• Milo Minderbinder, now head of the dubious M\u0026amp;M Enterprises who, with his bureaucratically challenged son M2, is developing the ultimate Defensive Second-Strike offensive Attack Bomber, so radar-proof and noiseless that it doesn’t even exist.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e• Chaplain Tappman, who is passing heavy water without a licence, whose increasingly toxic flatulence is causing grave concern and who may explode at any time, possibly causing the end of the world, which would be a Big Blow indeed to M\u0026amp;M who are busy trying to patent him with a Day-Glo halo as a trademark.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e• Little Sammy Singer, giant Lew, all linked in uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but The End.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eClosing Time\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning achievement, a work of breathtaking erudition, insight and inventiveness. It is chilling in its depiction of the moral collapse of the Western world as well as very funny in its black comedy. It will be viewed, like \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e, as one of the great American novels of all time.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Readers Paradise Book Shop Wexford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47552646709595,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/7105\/0923\/files\/1_99d6a540-3557-4370-8e62-f8e9a2418fa4.jpg?v=1705055987","url":"https:\/\/readersparadise.pro\/products\/closing-time","provider":"ReadersParadise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}