Catch-22

Catch-22 is unlike any other novel. It has its own logic, its own extraordinary character. It goes back and forth from hilarity to horror. It's outrageously funny and strangely moving. It is totally original. Set in the final months of World War II on a squadron of American bombers off Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bomber named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him. Catch-22 is a microcosm of the 20th century world as it might appear to someone dangerously sane. It is a novel that lives, moves and grows with astonishing power and vitality: a masterpiece of our time. - Back cover.

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Open Library Staff Selections, Satire, War Stories, Fiction, Drama, World War, 1939-1945, Catch-22 (Heller, Joseph), World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Type of publication of works of fiction, Bombers, American air operations, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Fiction, war and military, American fiction (fictional works by one author), World War, 1939-1945, fiction, Fiction, satire, Large print books, Literature and fiction, historical fiction, Psychology, Roman, Americana, Guerre mondiale (1939-1945), American war stories, Military air operations, Amerikanisches Englisch, United States. Army Air Forces, United States, World War, 1939-1945 / Fiction, World War, 1939-1945--air operations, American, World War, 1939-1945--air operations, American--fiction, Bombardiers--fiction, World War, 1939-1945--fiction, Ps3558.e476 c3 2011b, 813/.54 [fic], Long Now Manual for Places of Civilization

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Fiction.

Translation by: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1975.