True to the themes at its core, its style is frustratingly unique, its message is absurdly sensible and its tone is depressingly hilarious. Urn:oclc:63459114 Scandate 20101006223602 Scanner -22 is a brilliant novel and my personal favourite. OL276798W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.52 Pages 428 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:9041410333 Urn:lcp:catch22novelhell00hell:epub:cdd15fa1-0495-4ebd-91b1-bb3a36b84080 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier catch22novelhell00hell Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t47p9rs6p Isbn 0684865130Ħ1012846 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary_edition Nearly forty years later, Yossarian livesĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:17:52 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA128206 Camera Canon 5D City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition. Heller satirizes military bureaucracy with bitter, stinging humor, all the while telling the darkly comic story of Yossarian, a bombardier who refuses to die. No novel before or since has matched Catch-22's intensity and brilliance in depicting the brutal insanity of war. And this novel is full of madmen - Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly m order to finish their tour Milo Minderbinder, a dedicated entrepreneur who bombs his own airfield when the Germans offer him an extra 6 percent Major Major Major, whose tragedy in life is that he resembles Henry Fonda and Major - de Coverley, whose face is so forbidding no one has dared ask his name. Yossarian is also trying to decode the meaning of Catch-22, a mysterious regulation that proves that insane people are really the sanest, while the supposedly sensible people are the true madmen. Set in a World War II American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of John Yossarian, who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. Catch-22 took the war novel genre to a new level, shocking us with its clever and disturbing style. It is a classic in every sense of the word. First published m 1961, Joseph Heller's profound and compelling novel has appeared on nearly every list of must read fiction.

Catch-22 is one of this century's greatest works of American literature.

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