Catch-22

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Joseph Heller

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5 years, 10 months ago at Jul 17 11:03

theboylatham

Yossarian, a fighter pilot stationed off a small island in Italy towards the end of the World War 2 has decided to live forever (even if it kills him) and is furious about the thousands of people he hasn't met who are trying to kill him. In trying to rationalise away out of the situation, they determine perhaps the ultimate in circular logic.

Hilarious satire about the futility of w... read more

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Description: Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest—and most celebrated—books of all time. In recent years it has been named to “best novels” lists by Time, Newsweek, the Modern Library, and the London Observer. Set in Italy during World War II, this is t ... (more)

Manufacturer : Vintage
Release date : 6 October 1994
ISBN-10 : 0099477319 | ISBN-13: 9780099477310

War (5), Fiction (4), Humour (3), Satire (2), Dark-humour (1), Dark (1), Top 100 (1), Unread (1), Hist (1), World War II (1), Modernism (1), Politics (1), 1961 (1), Bought 2010 (1), Black Comedy (1), Novel (1), Anti-romance (1), WWII (1)

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"catch-22 n. a difficult situation from which there is no escape because it involves mutually conflicting or dependent conditions. -ORIGIN title of a novel by Joseph Heller (1961)."

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“Yossarian, a fighter pilot stationed off a small island in Italy towards the end of the World War 2 has decided to live forever (even if it kills him) and is furious about the thousands of people he hasn't met who are trying to kill him. In trying to rationalise away out of the situation, they determine perhaps the ultimate in circular logic.

Hilarious satire about the futility of war and the people who make the decisions.” read more

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