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Financial TimesBlessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny, and fantastically unique.ObserverThe greatest satirical work in the English language since EREHWONChicago TimesAn apocalyptic masterpieceSynopsisAt the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in
Financial Times
Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny, and fantastically unique.
Observer
The greatest satirical work in the English language since EREHWON
Chicago Times
An apocalyptic masterpiece
Synopsis
At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indicement of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is a tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive.
About the Author
Joseph Heller was born in 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a bombardier in the Second World War and then attended New York University and Columbia University and then Oxford, the last on a Fullbright scholarship. He then taught for two years at Pennsylvania State University, before returning to New York, where he began a successful career in the advertising departments of Time, Look and McCall's magazines. It was during this time that he had the idea for Catch-22. Working on the novel in spare moments and evenings at home, it took him eight years to complete and was first published in 1961. His second novel, Something Happened was published in 1974, Good As Gold in 1979 and Closing Time in 1994. He is also the author of the play We Bombed in New Haven. Joseph Heller is an honorary fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford, which he visits periodically to meet students who are writing fiction. He lives in East Hampton, New York
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Hilarious satire about the futility of w...Read more
Rating : 10/10