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Catch-22

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As recommended on BBC2's Between the Covers

by Joseph Heller
Paperback
Publication Date: 02/02/2004
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One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, now celebrating its 50th anniversary.

**AS SEEN ON BBC TWO's BETWEEN THE COVERS**

Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.

It's the closing months of World War II and Yossarian has never been closer to death. Stationed in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, each flight mission introduces him to thousands of people determined to kill him.

But the enemy above is not Yossarian's problem - it is his own army intent on keeping him airborne, and the maddening 'Catch-22' that allows for no possibility of escape.

'The greatest satirical work in the English language' Observer
ISBN:
9780099470465
9780099470465
Category:
Second World War fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
02-02-2004
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
544
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x32mm
Weight:
0.37kg
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, 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.

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I read this as a teenager when Vietnam was in full swing.

Set towards the end of World War II, Heller satirically peoples his novel with individuals who have remarkably different approaches to war.

At times there are flashes of Monty Python and even (film director) Fellini.

But there is always a vein of the futility and the senselessness of war.

From a slow opening chapter, Heller introduces characters that are (at times) ghastly parodies of stereotyped participants in wars generally.

At times it is outrageously funny. At others, it is heart-wrenchingly tragic.

Heller controls the interaction of people and events in a style that has you turning the pages to find out if the war ends too soon for some and too late for others.

You really won't be the same after reading this.

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