Catch As Catch Can

Zusatztext The San Diego Union-Tribune Read this collection chronologically to appreciate Heller's growing command of tone and plot. Or dip in and out to sample his variety! which encompassed theater...! stories of romance! violence and heroin! travel writing and the memoir. He was so versatile that he could have concentrated on any one of these genres. Informationen zum Autor Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn 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 Good as Gold, God Knows, Picture This, Closing Time , and Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man . Heller died in 1999. Klappentext Years before the publication of "Catch-22" ("A monumental artifact of contemporary literature" -- "The New York Times; " "An apocalyptic masterpiece" -- "Chicago Sun-Times; " "One of the most bitterly funny works in the language" -- "The New Republic"), Joseph Heller began sharpening his skills as a writer, searching for the voice that would best express his own peculiarly wry view of the world.In "Catch As Catch Can," editors Matthew J. Bruccoli and Park Bucker have for the first time collected the short stories Heller published prior to that first novel, along with all the other short pieces of fiction and nonfiction that were published during his lifetime. Also included are five previously unpublished short stories, most reflecting the influence on Heller of urban naturalist writers such as Irwin Shaw and Nelson Algren.The result is an important and significant addition to our understanding and appreciation of Joseph Heller, showing his evolution as a writer and artist. For those unfamiliar with his work, it will serve as an excellent introduction; for everyone else, "Catch As Catch Can" is a chance to explore a new aspect of Heller's remarkable career. Chapter One: I DON´T LOVE YOU ANY MORE Joseph Heller is twenty-two years old, born and educated in Brooklyn, New York, and, after three years of service in the Air Corps, is planning to enter the University of Southern California. He says, "I was stationed on the Island of Corsica with a B-25 squadron of the Twelfth Air Force and flew sixty combat missions as a bombardier, earning the Air Medal with seven oak-leaf clusters and a Presidential Unit Citation. I was discharged from the Army in June under the point system and have been comfortably rehabilitating myself ever since. At present, I am busy trying to get a play produced." She stood in the center of the room, her arms folded across her ample bosom and he could almost see the fires of anger flickering within her. She was doing her best to control them. "You aren´t being very considerate, you know," she said quietly. "I know," he replied, "I´m sorry." "I don´t believe you are sorry," she said. She waited for him to answer but he remained silent. "Are you?" "No," he said. "I´m not." She didn´t answer him immediately; she didn´t know what to say. It wasn´t working out right. He had been home three days now and it was getting worse. The first day they had been uncomfortable, very cautious and considerate, feeling each other out as prize fighters do, not being themselves at all, and hoping to pick up the thread of happiness from where it had been dropped almost a year ago when he left. The second day should have been better, but it hadn´t been. She was still considerate, too much so, and he found that something in the routine was getting on his nerves and making him bitter. And now they were quarreling; not yet, but he could see it coming because he was deliberately bringing it on. He was being cruel purposely, not really wanting to be, but nevertheless deriving some perverse pleasure in seeing her unhappy. He had been thinking about her for ten months, thinking about how nice it was going to be when he got back to her, and now he was back and ...

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• Autori: Joseph Heller, Joseph L. Heller, Joseph/ Bruccoli Heller
• Con la collaborazione di: Matthew J Bruccoli (Editore), Matthew J. Bruccoli (Editore), Park Bucker (Editore)
• Editore: Simon & Schuster USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.10.2004
• EAN: 9780743257930
• ISBN: 978-0-7432-5793-0
• Dimensioni: 137 mm x 212 mm x 25 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi