Closing Time, Joseph Heller

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.