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Catch-22 (Paperback)

by Joseph Heller (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars  (126 customer reviews)
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Product details

  • Paperback: 576 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (6 Oct 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099477319
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099477310
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (126 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 460 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #1 in  Books > Fiction > 20th Century Classics > Heller, Joseph
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Review
Catch-22 has been canonized since its first modest print run of 30,000 copies. It spoke to the Vietnam generation in 1961 with its savage, masculine humour and heartfelt indictment of the grotesque lunacy of warfare. The eponymous Catch-22 states that a man can be exempted from bombing missions if he is mad, but that the desire to be exempted is proof that he is sane. (It would have crept into the English language as Catch-18 but for Leon Uris's novel Mila 18 - Heller wanted to avoid possible mix-ups.) The cavortings of Captain Yossarian with officers, men and Roman prostitutes on the island of Pianosa drive the plot as he desperately tries to reason his way out of imminent death. (Kirkus UK)

Observer
The greatest satirical work in the English language since EREHWON

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