Good As Gold
$38.14
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2011
Summary
On paper, Bruce Gold seems to have carved a comfortable niche for himself. But in the flesh, he’s not so impressive. His ancient father thinks he’s a fool, his children fail to notice him and even his wife doesn’t realise he’s no longer living with her. Gold’s been promised a prestigious government post in Washington - only he’s never been told what the position actually is. Hugely funny and sweetly sad, Good as Gold is the story of children grown up, parents grown old, and lovers grown apart.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099561286 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009956128X |
| Author: | Joseph Heller |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2011 |
| Weight: | 331g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Dark, rude, paradoxical - and hilarious
Dark, rude, paradoxical - and hilarious * Mail on Sunday *
The satire comes closer than ever before to home, both in terms of Heller’s own background and the state of his nation * Independent *
Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller was born in 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a bombardier in the Second World War and then attended New York University and Columbia University and then Oxford on a Fullbright scholarship. He then taught for two years at Pennsylvania State University, before returning to New York, where he began a successful career in the advertising departments of Time, Look and McCall’s magazines. It was during this time that he had the idea for Catch-22. Working on the novel in spare moments and evenings at home, it took him eight years to complete and was first published in 1961. His second novel, Something Happened was published in 1974, Good As Gold in 1979 and Closing Time in 1994. He is also the author of the play We Bombed in New Haven. Joseph Heller died in 1999.
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