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Joseph Heller - Catch-22

Joseph Heller - Catch-22

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Key Information
Authors: Joseph Heller
Editors: Harold Bloom
Narrator: Jay O. Sanders
Fiction Genre: History
Professional Reviews
: New York Times Book Review: "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."
Book Editions
: Format: Audio - Compact Disc
Publisher: Caedmon Audio Cassette (March 01, 2007)
Measurements: 5.75"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 2.75"(d), 0.96 lbs.
ISBN: 9780060890094
First Line
Publisher's Note: It was love at first sight.
The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.
More Information
Details: 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 wonderful
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