Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here

Now and Then: From Coney Island to HereFrom 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 boardwalks of Depression era Coney Island, where he grew up amid the rumble of the Cyclone and the tantalizing aroma of Mrs.

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
boardwalks 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/26/1999
ISBN: 9780375700552
Pages: 259
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d