The Washington Post, February 1st, 1998
NOW AND THEN From Coney Island to Here By Joseph Heller Knopf. 259 pp. $24 PEOPLE curious about the connections between Catch-22 and the life of its author will find a few tantalizing tidbits in Now and Then, Joseph Heller's memoir, but mainly this is a book about his boyhood in Coney Island. As such it is lovely, the best writing Heller has done since the novel that made him famous, a richly evocative account of a vanished place and way of life. Now and Then is funny, albeit in a subdued rather than uproarious way, and it is touching without ever being even remotely maudlin. As was said in th...
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