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Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here (Charnwood Large Print Library Series)
Now and Then From Coney Island to Here - Charnwood Large Print Library Series Author:Joseph Heller From the author of two of our most legendary novels, Catch-22 and Something — Happened, comes a slyly funny, vastly revelatory memoir that is at once a loving — evocation of a lost America and an exploration of the frontier where life turns — into literature. — Now and Then follows Joseph Heller from his fatherless childhood on the — bo... more »ardwalks of Depression-era Coney Island, where he grew up amid the rumble of
the Cyclone and the tantalizing aroma of Mrs. Shatzkin's knishes. It offers a
dizzying bombardier's-eye view of the sky over wartime Italy, where Heller
encountered the characters and incidents he would later translate into Catch-22.
It depicts a writer coming to terms with both rejection and celebrity. Here, in
short, is a life filled with incident and insight, recollected with subversive
humor, exquisite timing, and a fine appreciation for the absurd.« less