Catch-22
Joseph Heller author Howard Jacobson editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:6th Oct '94
Should be back in stock very soon
One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, now celebrating its 50th anniversary.
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.
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.
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 *
- 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
ISBN: 9780099477310
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 31mm
Weight: 362g
528 pages