Catch 22
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of twentieth-century American literature, Catch-22 is a darkly comic anti-war novel set during World War II on the fictional island of Pianosa off the Italian coast. It chronicles the desperate attempts of bombardier Captain John Yossarian to avoid flying more combat missions, confronting a military bureaucracy so absurd it has become its own trap — the infamous Catch-22: anyone who requests to be grounded on the basis of insanity proves, by that very request, that they are sane. Joseph Heller's satirical masterpiece skewers institutional hypocrisy, blind authority, and the dehumanising machinery of war with razor-sharp wit and surreal, non-linear storytelling. Widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, it remains a searing and hilarious indictment of the absurdity of war and the systems that perpetuate it.
Author: Joseph Heller
Format: Paperback
Published: 1966, Corgi
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of twentieth-century American literature, Catch-22 is a darkly comic anti-war novel set during World War II on the fictional island of Pianosa off the Italian coast. It chronicles the desperate attempts of bombardier Captain John Yossarian to avoid flying more combat missions, confronting a military bureaucracy so absurd it has become its own trap — the infamous Catch-22: anyone who requests to be grounded on the basis of insanity proves, by that very request, that they are sane. Joseph Heller's satirical masterpiece skewers institutional hypocrisy, blind authority, and the dehumanising machinery of war with razor-sharp wit and surreal, non-linear storytelling. Widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, it remains a searing and hilarious indictment of the absurdity of war and the systems that perpetuate it.