Good as Gold

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Uniquely Heller. Fascinating, funny, infuriating, savage, and totally true. Good as Gold is not only destined to join Joseph Heller's previous novels as a major American classic. It surpasses them in wisdom, skill, and hilarity and ranks as his supreme work.
In Good as Gold, Joseph Heller does for the White House what he did for the military in Catch-22. Brilliantly, he captures the fractured logic of the Potomac with an absurd and moving accuracy.
Dr Bruce Gold, forty-eight-year-old professor (Jewish) of literature (English) and author of many seminal articles in small journals (unread), finds himself facing the prospect of becoming a high Washington official. The offer comes from Ralph Newsome (Protestant), a presidential aide with an oddly diplomatic way of speaking; "I can just about guarantee that you'll get the appointment you choose as soon as you want, although I can't promise anything. We'll want to move ahead with this as speedily as possible, although we'll have to go... Tovább

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Uniquely Heller. Fascinating, funny, infuriating, savage, and totally true. Good as Gold is not only destined to join Joseph Heller's previous novels as a major American classic. It surpasses them in wisdom, skill, and hilarity and ranks as his supreme work.
In Good as Gold, Joseph Heller does for the White House what he did for the military in Catch-22. Brilliantly, he captures the fractured logic of the Potomac with an absurd and moving accuracy.
Dr Bruce Gold, forty-eight-year-old professor (Jewish) of literature (English) and author of many seminal articles in small journals (unread), finds himself facing the prospect of becoming a high Washington official. The offer comes from Ralph Newsome (Protestant), a presidential aide with an oddly diplomatic way of speaking; "I can just about guarantee that you'll get the appointment you choose as soon as you want, although I can't promise anything. We'll want to move ahead with this as speedily as possible, although we'll have to go slowly."
Gold accepts (of course) and soon meets AndreaConover, the tall, beautiful, gifted daughter (also Protestant) of a wealthy, retired career diplomat (anti-Semite), clearly the suitable mate for a man with a potential of becoming the country's [very first Jewish) Secretary of State. Gold will have to give up much (including his wife): "He had no doubt he would be disowned by his (continued on back flap) Vissza