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When Joseph Heller Was Dad, the Apthorp Was Home, and Life Was a Catch-22
Simon & Schuster
September 2011
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Featuring: Joseph Heller; Erica Heller
256 pages ISBN: 1439197687 EAN: 9781439197684 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Catch-22 author Joseph Heller’s daughter, Erica,
writes a spirited and utterly charming memoir about growing
up amidst her father’s literary fame, her parents’ explosive
divorce, and her delightfully eccentric upbringing. •
Memoir of a legendary name: First published in 1961,
Catch-22 has sold more than 10 million copies
worldwide. And while Joseph Heller published two memoirs,
No Laughing Matter and Now And Then, no one
is better positioned to tell the inside story of this
fascinating family than Erica Heller. In Yossarian Slept
Here, she reveals some of the mysteries surrounding her
famous father, recounts her parents’ dynamic marriage and
their acrimonious and contentious divorce, and charts a
trajectory through their shared history—one that is often
darkly humorous enough to have jumped right out of one of
her father’s books. • A memorable, dysfunctional
family: Erica Heller recounts her family’s unexpected and
intriguing adventures, from her days of public school and
running under the park’s sprinklers to spending a summer at
the Beverly Hills Hotel. She takes readers to the meetings
of the famous Gourmet Club, where her father would dine
weekly with Mel Brooks and Zero Mostel, among others, and
introduces us to the colorful neighbors who resided at the
Apthorp, some famous—George Balanchine, Sidney Poitier,
Carla Bruni to name a few—and some not famous, but all quite
unforgettable.
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