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Catch-22 / Joseph Heller.

by Heller, Joseph.

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World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction

World War, 1939-1945 -- Italy -- Fiction.

Bombardiers -- Fiction.

S & S Classic Edition ; 4

Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 220

9781451626650 (2011 Simon & Schuster 50th Anniversary trade pbk. ed.)

9780440204398 (pbk.)

9780440111207 (1979 Dell pbk.)

9780224602679 (1961 Simon & Schuster)

9780684833392 (2003 Simon & Schuster trade pbk.)

9780679437222 (1995 Everyman's Library hc.)

9780684865133 (1999 S&S Classic editon hc.)

9781451621174 (2011 50th Anniversary edition hc.)

1 v. (various pagings)

1995 Everyman's Library hardcover edition contains an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury.

2003 Simon & Schuster trade paperback editions has an updated preface by the author.

2011 50th Anniversary edition has an introduction by Christopher Buckley.

At the heart of Catch-22 resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war. His efforts are perfectly understandable because as he furiously scrambles, thousands of people he hasn't even met are trying to kill him. His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions that he is committed to flying, he is trapped by the Great Loyalty Oath Crusade, the hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule from which the book takes its title: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of such missions, the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. Catch-22 is a microcosm of the twentieth-century world as it might look to some one dangerously sane -- a masterpiece of our time.

Historical fiction.

Humorous fiction.

Classic fiction.

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