Picture This - Hardcover

"San Francisco Chronicle"

The author of the outrageous classic "Catch-22" once again comments on all of society and history with this whirlwind tour through the minds of Aristotle and Rembrandt. Their vastly different worlds are not so very different from each other, or for that matter, from our own world. History as told by Heller is so comic and heartbreaking that you wonder why anyone would want to live there.

Doris Lessing

"Vogue"

Pure renegade Heller -- at best, as sharp (and thoroughly American) as Lizzie Borden's axe.

"Chicago Sun-Times"

Ingenious -- another new kind of novel: intelligent and written with grace....A fiction to appreciate and ponder.

"The New York Times Book Review"

Mr. Heller treats the whole panorama of history past and present with the bravado of Mark Twain in one of his sassier moods.

Rita Mae Brown

Chimerical, political, and funny, "Picture This" is a novel with fangs....His flashiest since "Catch-22."

Doris Lessing I think "Picture This" is brilliant. It has the astringency and wit of "Catch-22, " matured.

Rita Mae Brown Chimerical, political, and funny, "Picture This" is a novel with fangs....His flashiest since "Catch-22."

"Chicago Sun-Times" Ingenious -- another new kind of novel: intelligent and written with grace....A fiction to appreciate and ponder.

"Vogue" Pure renegade Heller -- at best, as sharp (and thoroughly American) as Lizzie Borden's axe.

In 1961, the Metropolitan Museum in New York paid $2,3000,000 for the painting "Aristotle contemplating the bust of Homer" by Rembrandt. It was the highest price ever paid for a painting. Rembrandt received 500 guilders for the same picture and fought off debtors all his life. Heller examines the painting out of its frame as a representation of history, travelling through Greece, Holland, England and America encompassing life from 500 BC to the present day. The author also wrote "Catch 22", "Something Happened", "Good as Gold" and "God Knows".