Catch-22
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: Reprint
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact, pages holding firm.
A cornerstone of twentieth-century American literature, Catch-22 is a darkly comic anti-war novel set during the final months of World War II. It chronicles the desperate attempts of U.S. Army Air Forces bombardier Captain John Yossarian to stay alive and sane amidst the escalating madness of military bureaucracy on the fictional island of Pianosa off the coast of Italy. Heller constructs a brilliantly absurdist world governed by the novel's central paradox — Catch-22 — which dictates that a pilot can only be grounded for insanity, but the very act of requesting to be grounded proves his sanity, trapping him in an inescapable loop of institutional logic. With biting satire, savage wit, and moments of genuine pathos, the novel argues that modern warfare and the institutions that wage it are themselves the ultimate form of collective madness. Decades after its 1961 publication, it remains one of the most influential and widely read novels in the English language.
Author: Joseph Heller
Format: Hardback
Published: 1962, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: Reprint
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact, pages holding firm.
A cornerstone of twentieth-century American literature, Catch-22 is a darkly comic anti-war novel set during the final months of World War II. It chronicles the desperate attempts of U.S. Army Air Forces bombardier Captain John Yossarian to stay alive and sane amidst the escalating madness of military bureaucracy on the fictional island of Pianosa off the coast of Italy. Heller constructs a brilliantly absurdist world governed by the novel's central paradox — Catch-22 — which dictates that a pilot can only be grounded for insanity, but the very act of requesting to be grounded proves his sanity, trapping him in an inescapable loop of institutional logic. With biting satire, savage wit, and moments of genuine pathos, the novel argues that modern warfare and the institutions that wage it are themselves the ultimate form of collective madness. Decades after its 1961 publication, it remains one of the most influential and widely read novels in the English language.