Good as Gold

by Joseph Heller

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780684839745
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	11/12/1997
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.30(d)

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.

Date of Birth:

May 1, 1923

Date of Death:

December 12, 1999

Place of Birth:

Brooklyn, New York

Place of Death:

East Hampton, New York

Education:

New York University, B.A. in English, Phi Beta Kappa, 1948<br> Columbia University, M.A., 1949