Volume 41, Number 17 · October 20, 1994
Catch-23
By Thomas R. Edwards
Closing Time
by Joseph Heller
Simon and Schuster, 464 pp., $24.00
Thirty-three years ago Catch-22 brought an impudent new tone to American fiction; with considerable help from the Vietnam War and other lunacies, it conveyed a deeply distrustful sense of modern life, even for people who had never read it. Now its belated sequel, Closing Time, takes a look at how Joseph Heller and the rest of us have been getting along in the meanwhile.
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