Closing Time

Author : Joseph Heller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143912776X
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closing Time written by Joseph Heller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22. In Closing Time, Joseph Heller returns to the characters of Catch-22, now coming to the end of their lives and the century, as is the entire generation that fought in World War II: Yossarian and Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, and such newcomers as little Sammy Singer and giant Lew, all linked, in an uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but The End. Closing Time deftly satirizes the realities and the myths of America in the half century since WWII: the absurdity of our politics, the decline of our society and our great cities, the greed and hypocrisy of our business and culture -- with the same ferocious humor as Catch-22. Closing Time is outrageously funny and totally serious, and as brilliant and successful as Catch-22 itself, a fun-house mirror that captures, at once grotesquely and accurately, the truth about ourselves.

Author : Bill Lindeke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681341378
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closing Time written by Bill Lindeke and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining journey into the highs, lows, bright spots, and dark corners of the Twin Cities' most famous and infamous drinking establishments--history viewed from the barstool.

Author : Joe Queenan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101032561
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closing Time written by Joe Queenan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An affecting memoir from one of America's most provocative humorists Over the past two decades, Joe Queenan has established himself as a scourge of everything that is half-baked, half-witted, and halfhearted in American culture. In Closing Time, Queenan turns his sights on a more serious and a more personal topic: his childhood in a Philadelphia housing project in the early 1960s. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Closing Time recounts Queenan's Irish Catholic upbringing in a family dominated by his erratic, alcoholic father, and his long flight away from the dismal confines of his neighborhood into the greater, wide world. A story about salvation and escape, Closing Time has at its heart the makings of a classic American autobiography.

Author : Lacey Fosburgh
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504038541
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closing Time written by Lacey Fosburgh and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real story behind the murder of a Manhattan schoolteacher that became a symbol of the dangers of casual sex: “A first-rate achievement” (Truman Capote). In 1973, Roseann Quinn, an Irish-Catholic teacher at a school for deaf children, was killed in New York City after bringing a man home to her apartment from an Upper West Side pub. The crime made headlines and the ensuing case quickly evolved into a cultural phenomenon, spawning both a #1 New York Times–bestselling novel and a film adaptation starring Diane Keaton and Richard Gere, and sparking debates about the sexual revolution and the perils of the “pickup scene” at what were popularly known as singles bars. In this groundbreaking true crime tale, Lacey Fosburgh, the New York Times reporter first assigned to the story, utilizes an inventive dramatization technique, in which she gives the victim a different name, to veer between the chilling, suspenseful personal interactions leading up to the brutal stabbing and the gritty details of its aftermath, including the NYPD investigation and the arrest of John Wayne Wilson. An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this classic of the genre is “more riveting, and more tragic, than the Judith Rossner novel—and 1977 movie Looking for Mr. Goodbar” (Men’s Journal).

Author : Laura M. Nicosia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781642659979
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catch-22 written by Laura M. Nicosia and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Catch-22 was published in 1961, becoming a number-one bestseller in England before American audiences identified with its anti-war sentiments, earning it classic status and prompting a film version in 1970. Heller's dark, satirical novel became so ubiquitous that it initiated the eponymous phrase regarding paradoxical situations. Catch-22 is appreciated for its black humor, extensive use of flashbacks, contorted chronology, countercultural sensibilities, and bizarre language structures. With current trends and political climate considered, this volume revisits this classic text for a contemporary audience." --

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Hazardous Materials
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Single Poll Closing Time written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Hazardous Materials and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Fusilli
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504053869
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closing Time written by Jim Fusilli and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “dead perfect” noir-inflected murder mystery carries readers from New York City’s most elite precincts to its dirtiest gutters (Robert B. Parker). Two years ago, writer Terry Orr lost his wife and infant son when a lunatic pushed them into the path of a subway train. Dissatisfied with the police response, he’s been looking for the killer himself ever since. Somewhere along the way, while raising his precocious daughter and continuing his search, he also becomes a legitimate private eye. First, Terry encounters the brutal murder of a livery cab driver, which he’s determined to solve. Then, he’s drawn into the world of high art and ruthless ambition after a SoHo gallery is destroyed by a bomb blast. And when the two cases collide, Terry might be fatally out of his depth . . . Wall Street Journal writer Jim Fusilli exploded onto the mystery scene with this debut novel hailed as “a gorgeous nightmare” (The New York Times Book Review). Closing Time is the 1st book in the Terry Orr Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434943356
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closing Time written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack Ketchum
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closing TIme written by Jack Ketchum and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2015-04-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Award-winning author and storyteller Jack Ketchum, a collection of bleak stories of loss, and pain. This is the author's newest collection, and includes his Bram Stoker Award-Winning novella - Closing Time. Also included: Returns Damned If You Do Station Two Elusive Papa The Fountain Do You Love Your Wife? At Home With the VCR Those Rockports Won’t Get You Into Heaven Olivia: A Monologue Brave Girl Honor System Lighten Up Hotline Monster Consensual Seascape Snarl, Hiss, Spit, Stalk

Author : Brenda Chapman
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459745345
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closing Time written by Brenda Chapman and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2020-03-21 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the body of a sixteen-year-old-girl is found at a wilderness lodge, detective Kala Stonechild puts her vacation on hold to find the murderer.