1994, ISBN: 9780099477310

Kartoniert, 519 Seiten, 198mm x 130mm x 35mm, Sprache(n): eng Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1923. In 1961, he published Catch-22, which became a bestseller and, in 1970… mais…

Kartoniert, 519 Seiten, 198mm x 130mm x 35mm, Sprache(n): eng Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1923. In 1961, he published Catch-22, which became a bestseller and, in 1970, a film. He went on to write such novels as Something Happened, God Knows, Picture This, Closing Time (the sequel to Catch-22), and Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. Heller died in December 1999.Joseph Heller was born in 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a bombardier in the Second World War and then attended New York University and Columbia University and then Oxford, the last on a Fullbright scholarship. He then taught for two years at Pennsylvania State University, before returning to New York, where he began a successful career in the advertising departments of Time, Look and McCall's magazines. It was during this time that he had the idea for Catch-22. Working on the novel in spare moments and evenings at home, it took him eight years to complete and was first published in 1961. His second novel, Something Happened was published in 1974, Good As Gold in 1979 and Closing Time in 1994. He is also the author of the play We Bombed in New Haven. Versand D: 1,50 EUR historical fiction, history books, historical novels, classic books, classics, vintage classics, classic books for adults, classics books, hardback classic books, classic books hardback clothbound classics, war stories, war books, world war two, ww2, war fiction, american, military, madness, between the covers, between the covers books, between the covers book club, best books of all time, classic, war, literary fiction, fiction, popular books, Amerikanische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Italien / Roman, Erzählung, Weltkrieg 1939/45 / Roman, Erzählung, Italien, [PU:Random House UK Ltd]<