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Picture This

by Joseph Heller

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0684868199, Paperback)

Picture this: Rembrandt is creating his famous painting of Aristotle contemplating the bust of Homer. As soon as he paints an ear on Aristotle, Aristotle can hear. When he paints an eye, Aristotle can see. And what Aristotle sees and hears and remembers from the ancient past to this very moment provides the foundation for this lighthearted, freewheeling jaunt through 2,500 years of Western Civilization.

Picture This is an incisive fantasy that digs deeply into our illusions and customs. Nobody but Joseph Heller could have thought of a novel like this one. Nobody but Heller could have executed it so brilliantly.

Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0345358864, Mass Market Paperback)

"Mr. Heller treats the whole panorama of history past and present with the bravado of Mark Twain in one of his sassier moods." The New York Times Book Review
A keenly satirical look at the world of art and museums by the author of the modern classic, Catch-22.

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:52 -0400)

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