Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is the tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive.

"* 'Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny, and fantastically uniqueNo one has ever written a book like this' - Financial Times * 'An apocalyptic masterpiece' - Chicago Times * 'Not only the best novel to come out of the war but the best novel to come out of anywhere in years' - The Nation"

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 a successful career in the advertising departments of Time, Look and McCall's magazines. It was during this time that he had the idea for Catch-22. Working on the novel in spare moments and evenings at home, it took him eight years to complete and was first published in 1961. His second novel, Something Happened was published in 1974, Good As Gold in 1979 and Closing Time in 1994. He is also the author of the play We Bombed in New Haven. He died in 1999.

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ISBN 13	9780099496960
ISBN 10	0099496968
Title	Catch-22
Author	Joseph Heller
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2005-09-01
Number of pages	560
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