Catch 22 / Joseph Heller.

By:

Heller, Joseph, 1923-1999

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: London : Vintage Books, 2011Edition: 50th anniversary edDescription: 540 p. 20 cmISBN:

9780099529125

Other title:

Catch-22
Catch twenty-two

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DDC classification:

813.54 23

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Copy number	Status
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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.

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