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It portrayed a corporation man, Bob Slocum, who suffers from insomnia and almost smells the disaster mounting toward him. ISBN 978-1573458450
Salt Lake City: Shadow Mountain, 2006. Catch-22 has also been dramatized. Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1998. During his recuperation Heller was visited among others by Mario Puzo, Dustin Hoffman and Mel Brooks. Good as Gold (1979) involves a humorous portrayal of Jewish family life and a satire of national politics, including attacks on real people such as Henry Kissinger.
His next book, published in 1988, was the satirical and experimental historical fiction Picture This. In 1994, he returned with Closing Time a sequel to Catch-22 depicting the current lives of its heroes.
Catch 22 controversy
In April 1998, Lewis Pollock wrote to the Sunday Times of London asking for clarification as to "the amazing similarity of characters, personality traits, eccentricities, physical descriptions, personnel injuries and incidents" in Catch 22 and a novel published in England in 1951.
The phrase "Catch-22" has entered the English language to signify a no-win situation, particularly one created by a law, regulation or circumstance. ISBN 978-0893703189
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(1974-2000) Other works
Heller waited 13 years before publishing his next novel—the darker and more sombre Something Happened (1974). And in The New York World-Telegram Richard Starnes opened his column with the prophetic words: "Yossarian will, I think, live a very long time." An earlier reviewer called the book "repetitious and monotonous," and another "dazzling performance that will outrage nearly as many readers as it delights."
Catch-22 was not a success when first published, but a few months later S.
J. Perelman praised the book in an interview; soon afterward, sales figures took off, and this novel has enjoyed steady sales ever since.
In Picture This (1988), Heller utilizes Rembrandt's painting "Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer" to draw parallels between ancient Greece, seventeenth-century Holland, and contemporary America. Heller died of a heart attack at his home in East Hampton, New York on December 13, 1999.
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Many events in the book are described repeatedly from differing points of view, so that the reader learns more about the event with each iteration. ISBN 978-0814329122