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, the last on a Fullbright scholarship. He then taught...

Endzeit von Heller, Joseph

"Rembrandt war 47 und sah dem Ruin ins Gesicht" von Joseph Heller ist eine faszinierende Darstellung des Lebens und der Karriere des berühmten Malers Rembrandt van Rijn. Das Buch beginnt, als Rembrandt 47 Jahre alt ist und sich am Rand...

Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1923. In 1961, he published Catch-22, which became a bestseller and, in 1970, a film. He went on to write such novels as Something Happened, God Knows, Picture This, Closing Time (the...

Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1923. In 1961, he published Catch-22, which became a bestseller and, in 1970, a film. He went on to write such novels as Something Happened, God Knows, Picture This, Closing Time (the...

Hilarious and tragic, at the heart of Catch-22 is a savage indictment of twentieth-century madness, and a desire of the ordinary man to survive it. von Heller, Joseph

Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1923. In 1961, he published Catch-22, which became a bestseller and, in 1970, a film. He went on to write such novels as Something Happened, God Knows, Picture This, Closing Time (the...

Catch 22 von Heller, Joseph

A collection of short stories and other miscellaneous writings by Joseph Heller, one of America's most influential and idiosyncratic writers.Years before the publication of Catch-22-which was called "a monumental artifact of contemporary...

Bob Slocum is anxious, bored and fearful of his job. So why is it he wants nothing more than the chance to speak at the next company convention? In this darkly satirical book, Joseph Heller takes us for a turn on the maddening hamster...

Captain Yossarián muss im II. Weltkrieg Kampfeinsätze fliegen, auch wenn er sie für idiotisch hält. Um diesem Irrsinn zu entkommen, beschließt er, den Rest des Krieges im Lazarett von Pianosa zu verbringen, was allerdings nicht gelingt....

Named one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. One of the funniest books ever written, Joseph Heller's masterpiece about a bomber squadron in the Second World War's Italian theater features a gallery of...