Name: Catch-22 (Everyman's Library)
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Author: Heller, Joseph ; Bradbury, Malcolm
ISBN: 9780679437222

Type

Physical Book

Author

Joseph Heller

Introduction by

Malcolm Bradbury

Publisher

Everyman's Library

Year

1995

Language

English

Pages

624

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.3 x 13.4 x 3.5 cm

Weight

0.64 kg.

ISBN

0679437223

ISBN13

9780679437222

Synopsis "Catch-22 (Everyman's Library)"

Named one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. One of the funniest books ever written, Joseph Heller's masterpiece about a bomber squadron in the Second World War's Italian theater features a gallery of magnificently strange characters seething with comic energy. The malingering hero, Yossarian, is endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war, and his story is studded with incidents and devices (including the Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade and the hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule that gives the book its title) that propel the narrative in a headlong satiric rush. But the reason Catch-22's satire never weakens and its jokes never date stems not from the comedy itself but from the savage, unerring, Swiftian indignation out of which that comedy springs. This fractured anti-epic, with all its aggrieved humanity, has given us the most enduring image we have of modern warfare. This hardcover Everyman's Library edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury, a chronology of the author's life and times, and a select bibliography. It is printed on acid-free paper, with sewn bindings, full-cloth covers, foil stamping, and a silk ribbon marker.