Catch-22

Catch-22

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Creator: Joseph Heller Language: English
E-newsletter Year: 1996 Structure: Paperback
ISBN:

9780684833392

EAN:

9780684833392

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Synopsis
Catch-22 is like no other fresh. It is some distance with out doubt one of many funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a contemporary timeframe to the dictionary. At the heart of Catch-22 resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero with out end creative in his schemes to connect his skin from the wicked possibilities of battle. His efforts are completely understandable because as he furiously scrambles, thousands of folks he hasn’t even met strive and abolish him. His jam is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men must flit to total their provider. Yet if Yossarian makes any makes an strive to excuse himself from the dangerous missions that he’s dedicated to flying, he is trapped by the Pleasurable Loyalty Oath Marketing campaign, the hilariously disagreeable bureaucratic rule from which the e book takes its title: a particular person is idea of insane if he willingly continues to flit bad fight missions, but if he makes the primary formal ask to be relieved of such missions, the very act of organising the ask proves that he’s sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. Catch-22 is a microcosm of the twentieth-century world because it’s going to also gape to some one dangerously sane — a masterpiece of our time.

Product Identifiers
ISBN-10 0684833395
ISBN-13 9780684833392
eBay Product ID (ePID) 848325

Key Facts
Creator Joseph Heller
Quantity Of Pages 464 pages
Structure Paperback
E-newsletter Date 1996-09-04
Language English
Creator Simon & Schuster
E-newsletter Year 1996

Extra Facts
Copyright Date 1994

Dimensions
Weight 15.6 Ounces19459034]
Prime 1 In.
Width 5.2 In.
Length 8 In.

Purpose Viewers
Team Exchange

Classification Manner
LCCN 94-013984
Dewey Decimal 813/.54
Dewey Edition 22

Critiques
” Catch-22 is the single battle fresh I’ve ever read that makes any sense.” Harper Lee ‘It is the rock and roll of novels . . . There’s not any e book like it. . . . Surprisingly grand.’ Norman Mailer, Esquire ‘Realizing to be one of potentially the most bitterly funny works in the language . . . Explosive, bitter, subversive, rapidly-witted.’ The New Republic ‘This fresh isn’t very any longer merely the acceptable American fresh to reach out of World Warfare II, it is the acceptable American fresh that has reach out of any place in years.’ Nelson Algren, The Nation ‘To call it the absolute best droll fresh of our day is faulting it. If Joseph Heller writes no other e book, he will be properly remembered for this apocalyptic masterpiece.’ Studs Terkel, Chicago Sun-Times ‘To my thoughts, there salvage been two sizable American novels in the previous fifty years. Catch-22 is one.’ Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly ‘Wildly usual, brilliantly droll, brutally gruesome, it’s a beautiful efficiency that can potentially outrage nearly as many readers because it delights.’ Orville Prescott, New York Times E book Overview Chicago Sun-TimesAn apocalyptic masterpiece. John W. AldridgeThe New York Times E book ReviewA enormous artifact of most up-to-date literature, practically as assured of longevity because the statues on Easter Island. Robert BrusteinThe New RepublicOne of potentially the most bitterly funny works in the language…explosive, bitter, subversive, rapidly-witted. “It’s the rock and roll of novels . . . There’s no e book like it. . . . Surprisingly grand.” Norman Mailer, Esquire “This fresh isn’t very any longer merely the acceptable American fresh to reach out of World Warfare II, it is the acceptable American fresh that has reach out of any place in years.” Nelson Algren, The Nation “To call it the absolute best droll fresh of our day is faulting it. If Joseph Heller writes no other e book, he will be properly remembered for this apocalyptic masterpiece.” Studs Terkel, Chicago Sun-Times “To my thoughts, there salvage been two sizable American novels in the previous fifty years. Catch-22 is one.” Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly “Wildly usual, brilliantly droll, brutally gruesome, it’s a beautiful efficiency that can potentially outrage nearly as many readers because it delights.” Orville Prescott, New York Times E book Overview

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