Comedy is murder
Thomas Powers: Joseph Heller, 8 March 2012
Just One Catch: The Passionate Life of Joseph Heller
by Tracy Daugherty.
Robson, 548 pp., £25, September 2011,978 1 84954 172 5 Show More
by Tracy Daugherty.
Robson, 548 pp., £25, September 2011,
Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller was Dad and Life was a Catch-22
by Erica Heller.
Vintage, 272 pp., £8.99, October 2011,978 0 09 957008 0 Show More
by Erica Heller.
Vintage, 272 pp., £8.99, October 2011,
“... he makes a speech at the company’s annual convention in Bermuda.’ The novelist and biographer Tracy Daugherty relates this moment in his masterful and fluent new life of Heller, Just One Catch. He pauses after the word Bermuda, very much, he imagines, as Heller must have done. ‘Married man working for a large company’ was not the sort of plot ... ”