Catch 22
'never has a book been laughed and wept over so many times'
$53.42
- Hardcover
569 pages
- Release Date
23 November 1995
Summary
Catch-22: A Burlesque Epic of Wartime Absurdity
A burlesque epic in the tradition of THE GOOD SOLDIER SCHWEIK, CATCH-22 exposes the absurdity of war by applying its own demented logic. The ‘catch’ is that soldiers have to claim to be mad in order to get out of fighting - but being capable of making such a claim automatically proves them sane.
With a cast of magnificently larger-than-life characters who are rushed along at a breathless pace, for once this really is a novel it…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857152203 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857152204 |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
| Author: | Joseph Heller |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 569 |
| Release Date: | 23 November 1995 |
| Weight: | 645g |
| Dimensions: | 212mm x 132mm x 33mm |
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About The Author
Joseph Heller
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 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.
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