![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, the personal musings of the elderly characters, particularly those of Sam Singer, give the book its greatest strength: emotional poignancy comes quite well from life review, and Heller has a way of bringing life to the tired stories so many of us ignore when we hear them from our grandparents. The book is primarily about old age and looking back, as was discussed last time characters reflect on their lives, on their childhoods and troubled adulthoods, on deaths and triumphs and failures, as old people are wont to do. That being said, having read Closing Time, I cannot help but feel that Joseph Heller overindulges in memory. When it comes to reviewing books, yours truly has almost no experience and even less education on the matter therefore, I feel compelled to inform the readers of this blog that by no means should my views on any literary subject be taken with grains of salt beyond the few due to a college freshman’s class-mandated musings. ![]()
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