The titles in the "Textplus" series, designed to reflect the changing nature of English Literature at advanced post-GCSE level, offer the complete text with a specially commissioned introduction and compact background notes placing the work in historical and critical context. Together, these components are intended to open up the text for students, allowing them to plot their own course of study, to plan extended projects, to compare writers' perspectives on similar themes and to relate works to key social and historical phenomena.
Every few years I make room in my life to read this book again and it’s a different book each time. This time, it’s more profound and less funny and more true and more human. And more inhuman too— how does someone even come up with the sentences that Heller writes? It’s the GOAT for a reason. What it means to be sane, what it means to be crazy, what it means to be human— it’s all in this book.
Reviewed July 2019
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June 2012:
Superb as ever. It blows my mind sometimes that a book like this exists. A book this hilarious shouldn’t have this much heart.
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March 2008:
I love, love, love this book. Hilarious and heart-wrenching. It’s another I never seem to stop reading. From the first line, it was love at first sight.
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