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Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
Joseph Heller
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Description for Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
Paperback. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, this title tells 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. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 378.
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, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. His real problem is not the enemy - it is his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. If Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099529125
SKU
9780099529125
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Ref
99-1
About Joseph Heller
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.
Reviews for Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
Never has a book been laughed and wept over so many times
Guardian
To my mind, there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. Catch-22 is one
Stephen King Catch-22 is the only war novel I've ever read that makes any sense
Harper Lee The war novel to end all war novels ... Read more
Guardian
To my mind, there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. Catch-22 is one
Stephen King Catch-22 is the only war novel I've ever read that makes any sense
Harper Lee The war novel to end all war novels ... Read more