Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

by Joseph Heller
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50th anniversary of Catch 22's publication. Yossarian lives!

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Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him. Joseph Heller's bestselling novel is a hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.

Editorial Reviews

"It is the Rock and Roll of novels" - Norman Mailer

"To my mind, there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. Catch-22 is one." - Stephen King

"Catch-22 is the only war novel I've ever read that makes any sense" - Harper Lee

"The greatest satirical work in the English language" - Observer

"Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this" - Financial Times

"Written with brilliance. Echoes with mad laughter" - Time

"An astonishing range of imagination... exciting" - Graham Greene

"Catch-22 is the greatest satirical work in English since Erewhon...remarkable... This is a book that I could wish everyone to read. It is a book which should help us feel more clearly" - Philip Toynbee, Observer

"My all-time favourite war-novel" - Andy McNab

"A wondrous book with many layers. When I first read it at 14 the story of war and passion really inspired me. It was like reading something in neon: everything came alive. As a teenager you start to feel the world is against you and I identified strongly with Yossarian and his dilemma. One of the funniest things I've ever read." - Nathaniel Parker, Daily Express

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