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Catch-22: As recommended on BBC2’s Between the Covers
Joseph Heller
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Description for Catch-22: As recommended on BBC2’s Between the Covers
Paperback. Presents the tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. This novel is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FJMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 35. Weight in Grams: 378.
Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.
It's the closing months of World War II and Yossarian has never been closer to death. Stationed in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, each flight mission introduces him to thousands of people determined to kill him.
But the enemy above is not Yossarian's problem - it is his own army intent on keeping him airborne, and the maddening 'Catch-22' that allows for no possibility of escape.
'The greatest satirical work in the English ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099470465
SKU
V9780099470465
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Ref
99-50
About Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller (Author) Joseph Heller was born in 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a bombardier in the Second World War and then attended New York University and Columbia University and then Oxford, the last on a Fullbright scholarship. He then taught for two years at Pennsylvania State University, before returning to New York, where he began ... Read more
Reviews for Catch-22: As recommended on BBC2’s Between the Covers
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, ... Read more
Adam Staten
British Journal of General Practice
Wildly original, brutally gruesome, ... Read more