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高级英语（下） Lesson One The Company in Which I work 背景知识（Background knowledge） Joseph Heller himself has recounted the story of his early life in his latest book now and Then (l998). He was born in Brooklyn in 1923 and grew up on Coney Island. At the outbreak of World War It, he worked first in a navy yard and then enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces, training at bases in South Carolina before flying sixty missions as bombardier in B - 255 in North Africa and Italy. After the war he went through college and graduate study at the University of Southern California, New York University (B. A. 1948),