num_pages: 464
description: A reissue of the breath-taking sequel to CATCH-22 - now a classic in its own right. Forty-two years ago Joseph Heller wrote the 20th century masterpiece CATCH-22, capturing the hilarious and tragic insanity of the times and galvanising the conscience of a generation. In the sequel, CLOSING TIME, he revisits many of the characters - now older, if not wiser - that made CATCH-22 so Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder, Chaplain Tappman, Sammy Singer and giant Lew, all linked in uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but The End. CLOSING TIME is a stunning achievement; a chilling, darkly funny depiction of the moral collapse of the Western world.
language: English
title: Closing Time
titlecomplete: Closing Time
characters: Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder, Chaplain Tappman
genres: 20th Century, American, Historical Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, War, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 5706
series: Catch-22
publisher: Scribner