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OverviewPicture 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joseph HellerPublisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd Imprint: Scribner Dimensions: Width: 13.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.322kg ISBN: 9780684868196ISBN 10: 0684868199 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 22 March 2000 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsRita Mae Brown Chimerical, political, and funny, <i>Picture This</i> is a novel with fangs....His flashiest since <i>Catch-22.</i> San Francisco Chronicle The author of the outrageous classic Catch-22 once again comments on all of society and history with this whirlwind tour through the minds of Aristotle and Rembrandt. Their vastly different worlds are not so very different from each other, or for that matter, from our own world. History as told by Heller is so comic and heartbreaking that you wonder why anyone would want to live there. Rita Mae Brown<p>Chimerical, political, and funny, Picture This is a novel with fangs....His flashiest since Catch-22. <p> Rita Mae Brown Chimerical, political, and funny, Picture This is a novel with fangs....His flashiest since Catch-22. Author InformationJoseph 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |