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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. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, this 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. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FH; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 36. Weight in Grams: 370.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099477310
SKU
V9780099477310
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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: 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