Closing Time

By: Joseph Heller

Narrated by: Elliott Gould

A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22.

Joseph Heller revisits the unforgettable characters of Catch-22, now facing the twilight of their lives and the end of the century. The generation that fought in World War II—Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, along with newcomers little Sammy Singer and giant Lew—are bound together in uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but the inevitability of The End. Closing Time deftly satirizes the realities and the myths of postwar America with the same ferocious humor as his masterpiece, Catch-22, exploring the absurdity of our politics, the decline of our society and great cities, and the greed and hypocrisy at the heart of our business and culture.

Outrageously funny yet deadly serious, and as brilliant as Catch-22 itself, Closing Time is a fun-house mirror reflecting, at once grotesquely and accurately, who we truly are.

Terrible Narrator

The story is excellent-- it captures the spirit of Catch-22 and is quite humorous. However, the narrator for this audio book is horrendously monotone and terribly boring. Simon & Schuster could have done much better.

I started this one after finishing Catch22. The narration was abysmal w no characters and no real emphasis.

Bayonet the abysmal narration the story was not that compelling… let’s just say it’s no Catch-22.

Very suspenseful with maturity

I like when the Catch-22 reconcile while going through real-world dilemma situations as well as facing atomic weapons!

ABRIDGED!!

I struggled all the way through this, because the breaks in the story were just so awkward. And then I looked at the Kindle edition and discovered that what I had just listened to was abridged!!! No wonder it felt so awkward! I'm extremely unhappy that this wasn't made clear at the outset.

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