Catch-22
Catch-22
paperback
Published:
6 October, 1994
Popular Books by Joseph Heller
View All Books by Joseph Heller
Description
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD JACOBSON
Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage.
Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him. Joseph Heller's bestselling novel is a hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.
Prizes
Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 21 2003,Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003,Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099477310 |
| ISBN10 | 0099477319 |
| Number Of Pages | 528 |
| Item Weight | 370 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 197 x 33 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
It is a rare book in that it has the ability to make you laugh out loud and be deeply moved within a few pages. -- Adam Staten * British Journal of General Practice *
Wildly original, brutally gruesome, a dazzling performance that will outrage as many readers as it delights. Vulgarly, bitterly funny, it will not be forgotten by those who can take it * New York Times *
Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this * Financial Times *
Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny, and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this * Financial Times *
An apocalyptic masterpiece * Chicago Times *
It is the Rock and Roll of novels -- Norman Mailer
Catch-22 is the only war novel I've ever read that makes any sense -- Harper Lee
Once you "get it" it is a gripping and devastating insight into the pointlessness and bureaucracy of war and its consequences * The Times *
The most devastating satire ever written about the lunacy of war and military bureaucracy * Antony Beevor *
Wildly original, brutally gruesome, a dazzling performance that will outrage as many readers as it delights. Vulgarly, bitterly, savagely funny, it will not be forgotten by those who can take it * New York Times *
GoodReads Reviews
Author's Bio
Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1923. In 1961, he published Catch-22, which became a bestseller and, in 1970, a film. He went on to write such novels as Something Happened, God Knows, Picture This, Closing Time (the sequel to Catch-22), and Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. Heller died in December 1999.