Good As Gold - Softcover

Heller, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684839741 ISBN 13: 9780684839745

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1997

Synopsis

Bruce Gold, a middle-aged, Jewish professor of English literature, finds himself on the brink of a golden career in politics -- and not a moment too soon, as Gold yearns for an opportunity to transform a less-than-picture-perfect life: His children think little of him, his intimidating father endlessly bullies him, and his wife is so oblivious that she doesn't even notice he's left her. As funny as it is sad, Good as Gold is a story of children grown up, parents grown old, and friends and lovers grown apart -- a story that is inimitably Heller.

About this title

About the Author:

Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn 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 Good as Gold, God Knows, Picture This, Closing Time, and Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. Heller died in 1999.

Review:

"Dark, rude, paradoxical - and hilarious" * Mail on Sunday * "The satire comes closer than ever before to home, both in terms of Heller's own background and the state of his nation" * Independent *

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0684839741
• ISBN 13: 9780684839745
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448