Miles Watson’s Reviews > Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here: A Memoir > Status Update

This book was a real slog for most of its length. It starts well, then becomes a frightful bore; and then, at around page 140 or 150, it finally became interesting, and I hope it stays that way. I get the impression Heller could have written a snappy essay about his past, and decided (or more likely was persuaded) to blow that essay up into a fullblown memoir.