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Catch-22 / [electronic resource] Joseph Heller.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Laurel : Dell Pub., 1990, c1961.Edition: New Laurel edDescription: 463 p. ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 0440204399 (pbk.) :
  • 9780440204398 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.54
LOC classification:
  • PS3558.E476 C3
Online resources: Summary: "Catch-22" is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. It is set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy. Its hero is a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. (He has decided to live forever even if he has to die in the attempt.).
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"A Laurel Book"--T.p. verso.

"Catch-22" is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. It is set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy. Its hero is a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. (He has decided to live forever even if he has to die in the attempt.).

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