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ISBN 9780684833392 (0-684-83339-5, 0684833395)

by Joseph Heller

ISBN 0684833395 (0-684-83339-5)
Softcover, Scribner

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There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As a result, it's impossible not to consider Catch-22 to be something of a period piece. But 40 years on, the novel's undiminished strength is its looking-glass logic. Again and again, Heller's characters demonstrate that what is commonly held to be good, is bad; what is sensible, is nonsense.

Yossarian says, "You're talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive."
"Exactly," Clevinger snapped smugly. "And which do you think is more important?"
"To whom?" Yossarian shot back. "It doesn't make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."
"I can't think of another attitude that could be depended upon to give greater comfort to the enemy."
"The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
Mirabile dictu, the book holds up post-Reagan, post-Gulf War. It's a good thing, too. As long as there's a military, that engine of lethal authority, Catch-22 will shine as a handbook for smart-alecky pacifists. It's an utterly serious and sad, but damn funny book. [via]

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ISBN 9780375709241 (0-375-70924-X, 037570924X)

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An Equal Music

by Vikram Seth

ISBN 037570924X (0-375-70924-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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The violinist hero of Vikram Seth's third novel would very much like to be hearing secret harmonies. Instead, living in London 10 years after a key disaster, Michael Holme is easily irritated by his beautiful young (and even French!) girlfriend and by his colleagues in the Maggiore Quartet. In short, he's fed up with playing second fiddle in life and art. Yet a chance encounter with Julia, the pianist he had loved and lost in Vienna, brings Michael sudden bliss. Her situation, however--and the secret that may end her career--threatens to undo the lovers.

An Equal Music is a fraction of the size of Seth's A Suitable Boy, but is still deliciously expansive. In under 400 pages, the author offers up exquisite complexities, personal and lyrical, while deftly fielding any fears that he's composed a Harlequin for highbrows. During one emotional crescendo, Michael tells Julia, "I don't know how I've lived without you all these years," only to realize, "how feeble and trite my words sound to me, as if they have been plucked out of some housewife fantasy." In addition to the pitch of its love story, one of the book's joys lies in Seth's creation of musical extremes. As the Maggiore rehearses, moving from sniping and impatience to perfection, the author expertly notates the joys of collaboration, trust, and creation. "It's the weirdest thing, a quartet," one member remarks. "I don't know what to compare it to. A marriage? a firm? a platoon under fire? a self-regarding, self-destructive priesthood? It has so many different tensions mixed in with its pleasures."

An Equal Music is a novel in which the length of Schubert's Trout Quintet matters deeply, the discovery of a little-known Beethoven opus is a miracle, and each instrument has its own being. Just as Michael can't hope to possess Julia, he cannot even dream of owning his beloved Tononi, the violin he has long had only on loan. And it goes without saying that Vikram Seth knows how to tell a tale, keeping us guessing about everything from what the Quartet's four-minute encore will be to what really occasioned Julia's departure from Michael's life. (Or was it in fact Michael who abandoned Julia?) As this love story ranges from London to Michael's birthplace in the north of England to Vienna to Venice, few readers will remain deaf to its appeals. --Kerry Fried [via]

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ISBN 9780684841250 (0-684-84125-8, 0684841258)

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God Knows

by Joseph Heller

ISBN 0684841258 (0-684-84125-8)
Softcover, Scribner

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Joseph Heller's powerful, wonderfully funny, deeply moving novel is the story of David -- yes, King David -- but as you've never seen him before. You already know David as the legendary warrior king of Israel, husband of Bathsheba, and father of Solomon; now meet David as he really was: the cocky Jewish kid, the plagiarized poet, and the Jewish father. Listen as David tells his own story, a story both relentlessly ancient and surprisingly modern, about growing up and growing old, about men and women, and about man and God. It is quintessential Heller. [via]

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ISBN 9780684839745 (0-684-83974-1, 0684839741)

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Good As Gold

by Joseph Heller

ISBN 0684839741 (0-684-83974-1)
Softcover, Scribner

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For the millions of readers who have been waiting for a book to make them laugh as did Catch-22, Joseph Heller has produced a new masterpiece. Good as Gold combines the probing insight into anachronistic America of his last novel, Something Happened, with the biting, side-splitting brilliance of Catch-22. [via]

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Graphic Style: From Victorian to Post-Modern

by Seymour Chwast, Steven Heller

ISBN 0810925885 (0-8109-2588-5)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc

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Collins, Max Allan: The Million - Dollar Wound

The Million Dollar Wound: Library Edition

by Max Allan Collins

ISBN 0743474635 (0-7434-7463-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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ISBN 9780684868196 (0-684-86819-9, 0684868199)

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Picture This

by Joseph Heller

ISBN 0684868199 (0-684-86819-9)
Softcover, Scribner

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"Mr. Heller treats the whole panorama of history past and present with the bravado of Mark Twain in one of his sassier moods." The New York Times Book Review
A keenly satirical look at the world of art and museums by the author of the modern classic, Catch-22. [via]

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The Regionalists

by Julia Williams, Nancy Heller

ISBN 0823045161 (0-8230-4516-1)
Hardcover, Watson-Guptill Publications

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ISBN 9780684841212 (0-684-84121-5, 0684841215)

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Something Happened

by Joseph Heller

ISBN 0684841215 (0-684-84121-5)
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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 deteriorated into desolation until...something happened.

Something Happened is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controversial second novel satirizing business life and American culture. The story is told as if the reader was overhearing the patter of Bob Slocum's brain -- recording what is going on at the office, as well as his fantasies and memories that complete the story of his life. The result is a novel as original and memorable as his Catch-22. [via]

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ISBN 9780451522702 (0-451-52270-2, 0451522702)

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The Vaudevilles

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ann Dunnigan

ISBN 0451522702 (0-451-52270-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Newly repackaged, here are the five masterpieces by one of the world's greatest playwrights, in translation by Ann Dunnigan. As Robert Brustein declares in the foreword to this edition: "in the modern theater...there are none who bring the drama to a higher realization of its human role." [via]

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The Vaudevilles: ISBN 0451522702 (0-451-52270-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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