Catch-22
Published on 5. August 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
544 pages
978-0-09-955218-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"It is a rare book in that it has the ability to make you laugh out loud and be deeply moved within a few pages." -- Adam Staten * British Journal of General Practice * " Wildly original, brutally gruesome, a dazzling performance that will outrage as many readers as it delights. Vulgarly, bitterly funny, it will not be forgotten by those who can take it" * New York Times * "Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this" * Financial Times * "The greatest satirical work in the English language" * Philip Toynbee, Observer * "My all-time favourite war-novel" * Andy McNab, Spectator *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-A)
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 110 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
294 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-955218-5 (9780099552185)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
E-Book
06/2011
1st Edition
Vintage Digital
€8.99
Available for download
Persons
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. Joseph Heller died in 1999.