Book Review: Portrait of An Artist As An Old Man by Joseph Heller. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000

While the rest of us sipped jug wine from plastic cups, assistants materialized out of nowhere to serve Heller Scotch on the rocks in cut glass. [...]though, Pota loses interest and resumes thinking about Hera. [...]the novel is both a deconstruction of Heller's art and a complaint—an entertain...

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Published in:	Confrontation 2000, Vol.72/73
Main Author:	McIntosh, Sandy
Format:	Review
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Authorship Biographies Heller, Joseph Literary characters Literary devices Literature Novels Writers
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Summary:	While the rest of us sipped jug wine from plastic cups, assistants materialized out of nowhere to serve Heller Scotch on the rocks in cut glass. [...]though, Pota loses interest and resumes thinking about Hera. [...]the novel is both a deconstruction of Heller's art and a complaint—an entertaining, intellectually-engaging one, to be sure—concerning the failures of old age and the demand made upon a successful author to repeat his success with yet another new book.
ISSN:	0010-5716