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The author relates the story of his life, from his Coney Island childhood during the Depression, to his service in the Army Air Force satirized in his most famous book, to marriage and after
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From the author of two of our most legendary novels, <b>Catch-22</b> and <b>Something<br>Happened</b>, comes a slyly funny, vastly revelatory memoir that is at once a loving<br>evocation of a lost America and an exploration of the frontier where life turns<br>into literature.<br><br>Now and Then follows Joseph Heller from his fatherless childhood on the<br>boardwalks of Depression-era Coney Island, where he grew up amid the rumble of<br>the Cyclone and the tantalizing aroma of Mrs. Shatzkin's knishes. It offers a<br>dizzying bombardier's-eye view of the sky over wartime Italy, where Heller<br>encountered the characters and incidents he would later translate into Catch-22.<br>It depicts a writer coming to terms with both rejection and celebrity. Here, in<br>short, is a life filled with incident and insight, recollected with subversive<br>humor, exquisite timing, and a fine appreciation for the absurd.
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