TY - BOOK AU - Heller,Joseph TI - Catch 22 SN - 9780099529125 U1 - 813.54 23 PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Vintage Books KW - United States KW - Army Air Forces KW - Fiction KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Aerial operations, American KW - Bombardiers KW - Psychology KW - Italy KW - Satire KW - lcsh KW - War stories KW - gsafd N1 - First published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1961 N2 - 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 ER -