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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0684833395
ISBN-13: 9780684833392
Sep 1996
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
463 pages
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Language: English |
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Synopsis
Joseph Heller's manic, bleak, blackly humorous, and brilliant novel has become a classic of American literature, and "Catch-22" has entered the language as a term describing a no-win situation. Set during the last months of World War II, the novel tells the story of an Air Force bombardier, the hapless Yossarian, who is convinced--quite rightly, of course--that people are trying to kill him. The famous "catch" is that the terrified Yossarian, who constantly and by increasingly inventive means tries to persuade his superiors that he is crazy and should be grounded, can't be grounded because his fear of dying proves that he is sane--and so he is assigned to more and more bombing missions. Heller makes the horrors of war, which include Yossarian's traumatized reliving of the particularly grisly death of a friend, into comedy with the help of a Dickensian cast of characters, including the elusive Major Major Major Major, the blackmarket profiteer Milo Minderbinder, the photographer Hungry Joe, and the wonderfully named parade-loving Lieutenant Scheisskopf. Based on Heller's own war experiences, CATCH-22 was published in 1961 and was considered shocking because it viewed World War II as anything but the glorious, romantic adventure depicted in many postwar movies and books. Heller's novel became one of the defining texts for Vietnam War protestors in the late '60s and early '70s because of its fierce, irreverent denunciation of war and bureaucracy. An interesting sidelight on the book is that Heller originally titled it CATCH-18, but the change was made because Leon Uris's WWII novel, MILA 18, had just been published.
| Size | | Length: | 463 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 14.4 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "It was love at first sight.<BR> The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him."
Industry Reviews
"Vulgarly, savagely, bitterly funny... A dazzling performance that will outrage nearly as many readers as it delights."
New York Times - Orville Prescott
"A wild, moving, shocking, hilarious, raging, exhilarating, giant roller-coaster of a book."
New York Herald Tribune (1924-1966) - Maurice Dolbier (11/11/1961)
"One of the most bitterly funny works in the language...explosive, bitter, subversive, brilliant."
New Republic - Robert Brustein
"An extraordinary book...of enormous richness and art, of deep thought and brilliant writing."
Cussler
"A monumental artifact of contemporary American literature, almost as assured of longevity as the statues on Easter Island...CATCH-22 is a novel that reminds us once again of all that we have taken for granted in our world and should not, the madness we try not to bother to notice, the deceptions and falsehoods we lack the will to try to distinguish from truth."
New York Times Book Review - John W. Aldridge
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