{"product_id":"book-ac4g","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\u003e Yossarian returns -- older, if not wiser -- to face a new foe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e \u003cp\u003e An 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\u003e In \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\u003e Outrageously 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":"Audiobook","offer_id":49348284481840,"sku":"BDac4g","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/138956-ac4g-Square.jpg?v=1734219320","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ac4g","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}