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Good as Gold

Joseph Heller

1976

MEET BRUCE GOLD.... He's a professor who hates teaching, a writer of unread books... father of three, brother of six, son-of-a-tyrant and stepson of a dingbat...he's married to a perfect wife who bores him...engaged to a sexy heiress who can help him... and in love with his daughter's randy schoolteacher-he hates power but wants to be Secretary of State... the President admires him; his family thinks he's a dummy. From Coney Island to the White House, in outrageous encounters with friends, enemies, uneasy politicians, easy women, the hard-hearted and the weak-minded Gold sets out to set his world right. He probably won't make it. But then again... "

Portions of this book originally appeared in The New York Times in 1976 and in Playboy magazine in 1979. ? POCKET BOOKS, a Simon & Schuster division of

GULF & WESTERN CORPORATION 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10020

Published by arrangement with Simon and Schuster Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 78-23894 All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Simon and Schuster, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10020 ISBN: 0-671-82388-4 First Pocket Books printing January 1980 10 987654321 Trademarks registered in the United States and other countries. Printed in the U.S.A.

I dedicate this book

to The several gallant families and Numerous unwitting friends whose Help, conversations, and experiences play so large a part.

I've got his pecker in my pocket.

—Lyndon B. Johnson as U.S. Senate Majority Leader

If you ever forget you*re a Jew,

a gentile will remind you.

-from a story by Bernard Malamud

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