Last scene

Author: Joseph Heller (USA)
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Publish Date: 1997-06-01
Features: The main characters in The Last Scene are the "little people" from Catch-22. Most of them come from Coney Island, and they knew each other during their initial military training. While serving in Europe, they were all in the same air force unit (except Liu, who served as infantry). After surviving the ordeal and returning home, they went their separate ways but still kept in touch. Additionally, they maintained their former personalities. Like Catch-22, The Last Scene received widespread praise from the literary and news communities upon its release. The Last Scene has a loose structure. It consists of 34 chapters, lacking a traditional beginning, climax, and ending. Each chapter, section, and even paragraph often lacks coherence, as if every chapter could be a "chapter." Of course, there are elegant and flowing descriptions and narratives, but there is also the opposite extreme.