Catch 22 /
Heller, Joseph, 1923-1999
Catch 22 / Catch-22 Catch twenty-two Joseph Heller. - 50th anniversary ed. - 540 p. 20 cm. - 20 cm.
First published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1961.
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.
9780099529125
United States. Army Air Forces --Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American--Fiction.
Bombardiers--Psychology--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Italy--Fiction.
Bombardiers--United States--Fiction.
Satire.
War stories.
813.54
Catch 22 / Catch-22 Catch twenty-two Joseph Heller. - 50th anniversary ed. - 540 p. 20 cm. - 20 cm.
First published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1961.
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.
9780099529125
United States. Army Air Forces --Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American--Fiction.
Bombardiers--Psychology--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Italy--Fiction.
Bombardiers--United States--Fiction.
Satire.
War stories.
813.54