Full name: Picture This: A Novel

Author: Joseph Heller Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Humor, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780684868196 0684868199

A keenly satirical look at the world of art and museums by the author of the modern classic, Catch-22. 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. Similar books: Seek My Face by John Updike Mr. Bridge by Evan S. Connell No Other Life by Brian Moore Florida by Christine Schutt Passion Play by Jerzy Kosinski Lost Empires by J. B. Priestley I Am the Clay by Chaim Potok Honey for the Bears by Anthony Burgess The Travelling Hornplayer by Barbara Trapido Dolores by Jacqueline Susann Being Invisible by Thomas Berger The Pornographer's Poem by Michael Turner East is East by T. Coraghessan Boyle A Word Child by Iris Murdoch Beggarman, Thief by Irwin Shaw The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore The Road to Wellville by T. Coraghessan Boyle Something Happened by Joseph Heller My Name Is Will by Jess Winfield Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man by Joseph Heller