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Catch-22 (Reading Guide Edition)

Catch-22 (Reading Guide Edition)

by Howard Jacobson (Introduction), Joseph Heller (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

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Synopsis

At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is the tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 560
 Edition: Limited Ed
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 01 Sep 2005
ISBN 10: 0099496968
ISBN 13: 9780099496960
Book Overview: One of 15 limited edition Vintage Future Classics published to celebrate Vintage's 15th birthday. The 15 titles were voted for by reading groups all over the UK as being books that would still be read in 100 years time.

Media Reviews
* 'Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny, and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this' - Financial Times * 'An apocalyptic masterpiece' - Chicago Times * 'Not only the best novel to come out of the war but the best novel to come out of anywhere in years' - The Nation
Author Bio
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. He died in 1999.