Yossarian Slept Here, Erica Heller
Yossarian Slept Here, Erica Heller
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Yossarian Slept Here
When Joseph Heller Was Dad, the Apthorp Was Home, and Life Was a

Author: Erica Heller

Narrator: Karen White

Unabridged: 9 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/27/2011

Synopsis

Like his most famous work, Joseph Heller was a study in contradictions: eccentric, brilliant, and voracious, but also mercurial, competitive, and stubborn, with a love of mischief that sometimes cut too close to the bone.

Yossarian Slept Here is a daughter's mordantly funny, poignant, and incisive memoir about growing up Heller—from her colorful family members and her parents' passionate and tumultuous 38-year marriage, to her father's celebrity friends and the family's eccentric neighbors in New York City's historic Apthorp apartment building. Mel Brooks, Zero Mostel, and Mario Puzo were close confidantes of Joe; George Balanchine, Sidney Poitier, and Lena Horne shared the elevator. This authentic and vibrant portrait of life in the Heller household unfolds alongside the saga of the family's move into four distinctive apartments within the Apthorp, each representing a different phase of their lives together—and apart. It is a story about achieving a dream, about fame and its aftermath, about lasting love, squandered opportunities and how to have the best meal in Chinatown.

About Erica Heller

Erica Heller is the daughter of Joseph Heller, the author of Catch-22. An advertising copywriter, novelist, and creative consultant, her work has appeared in the New York Observer and on the Huffington Post. She lives in New York City at the ever-evolving Apthorp apartment building.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David

This book should be required reading for anyone interested in Joseph Heller, memoir, New York City, recent history, and much else. As the book’s title and subtitle suggest, this is a hybrid. A biopsy of the building, its history and residents, the real focus of Yossarian is Joseph Heller and his long......more

Goodreads review by Trevor

I can't begin to tell you how important "Catch-22" has been to my life; from the first moment I read it, it challenged the way that I looked at the world, at authority, at the military, at America, at life itself and what's really important versus what those in power say is important. "Catch-22" is......more

Goodreads review by Janavi

This is my cousin Erica Heller's s autobiography. It is funny, ( my cousin has always has a wicked sense of humor). It is sad and poignant, hilarious and lovely in turns. A beautifully written book!. (PS. The portrait she paints of our wild Grandmother is quite accurate.....believe it or not!)......more

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