num_pages: 555
description: CATCH-22, published in 1961, immediately became a classic. It captured the hilarious and tragic insanity of the times and galvanised the conscience of a generation. Now Joseph Heller has written the sequel...Closing Time revisits many of the characters, now older if not wiser, that made Catch-22 so unforgettable, all linked in uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but The End. Closing Time is a stunning achievement, a work of breathtaking erudition, insight and inventiveness, chilling in its depiction of the moral collapse of the Western world as well as very funny in its black comedy.
language: English
title: Closing Time
titlecomplete: Closing Time
characters: Chaplain Tappman, Milo Minderbinder, Yossarian
genres: Fiction, American, War, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 5706
series: Catch-22
publisher: Pocket Books