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Good as Gold by Joseph Heller

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Author Biography

Name: Joseph Heller
Birth Date: May 1, 1923
Death Date: December 12, 1999
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Place of Death: East Hampton, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: author

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Biography of Joseph Heller
12634 words, approx. 42.1 pages
Joseph Heller has established himself as a major satirist in the field of contemporary American fiction. A new phrase was added to the American lexicon from the title of his first novel Catch-22 (1961). The term "catch-22" has become accepted in Webster'...
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Biography of Joseph Heller
8997 words, approx. 30 pages
Joseph Heller (1923-1999) was a popular and respected writer whose first and best-known novel, Catch-22 (1961), is considered a classic of the post-World War II era. Presenting human existence as absurd and fragmented, this irreverent, witty novel satiri...
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Biography of Joseph Heller
5415 words, approx. 18.1 pages
When Joseph Heller learned that the New York Times Book Review's response to his first novel was negative, he and his family were terribly depressed. "Waiting for that review to come out," he later told David Streitfeld of New York, "I didn't think any o...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Good as Gold Information
369 words, approx. 1 pages
Good as Gold is a 1979 novel by Joseph Heller, author of...


News and Journals
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Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
Good as gold
10/17/2007: 611 words, approx. 2 pages
Work with discarded jewelry teaches craftmanship, stewardship Students of fine metalworking at Hempfield High School are learning something old is sometimes better than something new. Nathan Boring, a student art teacher at Hempfield, has started a project called Radical Jewelry Makeover. In...
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The Boston Globe
Good As Gold
01/20/1998: 308 words, approx. 1 pages
Winners of the 55th annual Golden Globe Awards Sunday night. Motion picture -- drama: "Titanic," Paramount/20th Century Fox/Lightstorm; Paramount/20th Century Fox Actress in a motion picture -- drama: Judi Dench, "(Her Majesty) Mrs. Brown" Actor in a motion picture -- drama: Peter Fonda, "Ulee's...
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AP News
Feds to restrict volunteers at disasters
9/1/2007: 739 words, approx. 3 pages
Retiree Gene O'Brien hurried to the World Trade Center site after Sept. 11, 2001, as a volunteer helping to shuttle supplies to police and fire workers. Some days, his only ID to get into the disaster site was a tattoo on his forearm."A couple times...
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The New York Observer
Crowe Fights the Good Fight In Ron Howard's Cinderella Man
6/12/2005: 1,815 words, approx. 6 pages
Ron Howard's Cinderella Man, from a screenplay by Cliff Hollings-worth and Akiva Goldsman, struck me as just an O.K. vintage fight movie. I say "just O.K." in opposition to the gushing superlatives lavished on it by many early reviewers.Like most movies in the boxing genre,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Marshall Toman
3,147 words, approx. 11 pages
In the following essay, Toman examines Heller's satirical treatment of the American neoconservative political program in Good as Gold.


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Good as Gold by Joseph Heller

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