Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent...

Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American lit-erature and one of the funniest-and most celebrated—novels of all time. In recent years it has been named to "bes...

A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22. In Closing Time, Joseph Heller returns to the characters of Catch-22, now coming to the end of their lives and the century, as is th...

The demented Army Air Force of Catch-22 , the lethal business world of Something Happened , the dysfunctional family of Good as Gold -all these, we have assumed, had their roots in Joseph Heller's own past. Now, more than thirty-five years afte...

Long before there was a Catch-22, before there was even a Catch-18 (the novel's original title), Joseph Heller had begun sharpening his skills as a writer, searching for the voice that would best express the pe...