{"product_id":"9780743542845","title":"Closing Time","description":"\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThirty-three years and over ten million copies later...the classic story continues.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eYossarian returns -- older, if not wiser -- to face a new foe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn instant classic when published in 1961, Joseph Heller's \u003ci\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e still ranks among the funniest -- and most serious -- novels ever written about war. Now Heller has dared to write the sequel to his 10-million copy bestseller, using many of \u003ci\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e's characters to deftly satirize the realities and the myths of America in the half century since they fought World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eClosing Time,\u003c\/i\u003e a comic masterpiece in its own right, Heller spears the inflated balloons of our national consciousness -- the absurdity of our politics, the decline of society and our great cities, the greed and hypocrisy of our business and culture -- with the same ferocious humor that he used against the conventional view of warfare. Back again are characters familiar from \u003ci\u003eCatch-22,\u003c\/i\u003e including Yossarian and Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, and little Sammy Singer, as they come to the end of their lives and the end of the century -- all linked, this time, in uneasy peace and old age...fighting not the Germans, but The End.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOutrageously funny and totally serious, and as brilliant and successful as \u003ci\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e itself, \u003ci\u003eClosing Time\u003c\/i\u003e is a fun-house mirror that captures, at once grotesquely and accurately, the truth about ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47094599287024,"sku":"9780743542845","price":13.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780743542845_p0.jpg?v=1763639605","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780743542845","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}