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Picture This

by Joseph Heller · 1988

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"Mr. Heller treats the whole panorama of history past and present with the bravado of Mark Twain in one of his sassier moods."—The New York Times Book Review

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A keenly satirical look at the world of art and museums by the author of the modern classic, Catch-22.

Genre
humorhistorical fictionsatirefantasy
Themes
art
Setting
1980sNetherlandsUSA
Subject
historybiography
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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