Face of a Hero
The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000
This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.
Interview with Louis Falstein, author of "Face of a Hero." The novel is about combat on the Italian front.
It has been suggested that Joseph Heller's Catch 22 bears "an amazing similarity of characters, personality traits, eccentricities, physical descriptions, personnel injuries and incidents" to Falstein's "Face of a Hero." Heller's novel was published ten years after Falstein's.
Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection
WNYC archives id: 69684
Municipal archives id: LT715
