Total sales of all editions of Catch-22 are now more than 10m, a very large number for a novel as complicated, fiercely intelligent, uncompromising in its politics and remorseless in its satire as Catch-22.
"Kindzi is such a well written part, she's strong, dedicated, complicated, fiercely jealous,' says Nichole.
I say fiercely because Fried involves his readers in some detailed passages of exposition – further complicated by references to Heidegger, Wittgenstein and Hegel.
Handicapping this crowded race is even more complicated because the voters in the district have a history of being fiercely independent.
He is a seething loner, and although not as bright, sociable or complicated as James Gandolfini's Tony, the two have one crucial similarity: Both are fiercely devoted family men who go to great lengths to shield their loved ones from the dirty reality of their work.
Why someone who hates to lose would spend his youth competing struck me as complicated, but I grabbed my racket and headed onto the court, where I compete fiercely only with myself and the passing of time.
