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Vintage
02 February 2004

ABBEY’S BOOKSELLER PICK —— It is 50 years since Joseph Heller’s wonderful creation first appeared. My first encounter was as a young backpacker in Liechtenstein. Entering the hostel dorm, a young German was lying on his bunk with escalating outbursts of laughter. When curiosity finally overwhelmed me I asked what on earth he was reading.

Catch 22 is like no other book you will ever read. The narrative tumbles out, eddies and circles back, piling absurdity upon nonsense until your want for sense and order surrenders. Give yourself over to Heller’s anarchic playfulness and you will be richly rewarded with a story about the enterprise of war that is both tragic and comic. Craig Kirchner

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD JACOBSON
Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him. Joseph Heller's bestselling novel is a hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.

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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 32mm
Weight:   373g
ISBN:   9780099470465
ISBN 10:   0099470462
Pages:   544
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1923. In 1961, he published Catch-22, which became a bestseller and, in 1970, a film. He went on to write such novels as Something Happened, God Knows, Picture This, Closing Time (the sequel to Catch-22), and Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. Heller died in December 1999.

Reviews for Catch 22

ABBEY’S BOOKSELLER PICK —— It is 50 years since Joseph Heller’s wonderful creation first appeared. My first encounter was as a young backpacker in Liechtenstein. Entering the hostel dorm, a young German was lying on his bunk with escalating outbursts of laughter. When curiosity finally overwhelmed me I asked what on earth he was reading.

Catch 22 is like no other book you will ever read. The narrative tumbles out, eddies and circles back, piling absurdity upon nonsense until your want for sense and order surrenders. Give yourself over to Heller’s anarchic playfulness and you will be richly rewarded with a story about the enterprise of war that is both tragic and comic. Craig Kirchner





It is a rare book in that it has the ability to make you laugh out loud and be deeply moved within a few pages. -- Adam Staten * British Journal of General Practice * Wildly original, brutally gruesome, a dazzling performance that will outrage as many readers as it delights. Vulgarly, bitterly funny, it will not be forgotten by those who can take it * New York Times * Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this * Financial Times * The greatest satirical work in the English language * Philip Toynbee, Observer * Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny, and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this * Financial Times *


  • Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 21 2003
  • Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 21 2003.

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