Catch-22

Format:

Book

Title:

Catch-22

Author:

Heller, Joseph author

ISBN:

9780679437222

Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 568 pages ; 22 cm.

Series title(s):

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

Number in series:

220.

General Note:

Sequel: Closing time.

Contents:

Texan -- Clevinger -- Havermeyer -- Doc Daneeka -- Chief White Halfoat -- Hungry Joe -- McWatt -- Lieutenant Scheisskopf -- Major Major Major Major -- Wintergreen -- Captain Black -- Bologna -- Major-de Coverley -- Kid Sampson -- Piltchard & Wren -- Luciana -- Soldier in white -- Soldier who saw everything twice -- Colonel Cathcart -- Corporal Whitcomb -- General Dreedle -- Milo the mayor -- Nately's old man -- Milo -- Chaplain -- Aarfy -- Nurse Duckett -- Dobbs -- Peckem -- Dunbar -- Mrs. Daneeka -- Yo-Yo's roomies -- Nately's whore -- Thanksgiving -- Milo the militant -- The cellar -- General Scheisskopf -- Kid sister -- The eternal city -- Catch-22 -- Snowden -- Yossarian.

Summary:

Depicts the struggles of a U.S. airman attempting to survive the lunacy and depravity of a World War II base.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 7.1 30 Quiz 16708 English fiction, vocabulary quiz available, literary skills quiz available.

Personal Subject:

Heller, Joseph. Catch-22.

Subject(s):

World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.

American fiction -- 20th century.

Genre:

Added Author:

Bradbury, Malcolm, 1932-2000,

Holds:

Available:*

Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Monmouth Public Library	Fic Heller, J. 1955	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

Named one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read * One of The Atlantic 's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

One of the funniest books ever written, Joseph Heller's masterpiece about a bomber squadron in the Second World War's Italian theater features a gallery of magnificently strange characters seething with comic energy. The malingering hero, Yossarian, is endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war, and his story is studded with incidents and devices (including the Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade and the hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule that gives the book its title) that propel the narrative in a headlong satiric rush. But the reason Catch-22 's satire never weakens and its jokes never date stems not from the comedy itself but from the savage, unerring, Swiftian indignation out of which that comedy springs. This fractured anti-epic, with all its aggrieved humanity, has given us the most enduring image we have of modern warfare.

This hardcover Everyman's Library edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury, a chronology of the author's life and times, and a select bibliography. It is printed on acid-free paper, with sewn bindings, full-cloth covers, foil stamping, and a silk ribbon marker.

Author Notes

American novelist and dramatist Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on May 1, 1923. Heller started off his writing career by publishing a series of short stories, but he is most famous for his satirical novel Catch-22. Set in the closing months of World War II, Catch-22 tells the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who discovers the horrors of war and its aftereffects. This novel brought the phrase "catch-22," defined in Webster's Dictionary as "a situation presenting two equally undesirable alternatives," into everyday use. Heller wrote Closing Time, the sequel to Catch-22, in 1994. Other novels include As Good As Gold and God Knows. He also wrote No Laughing Matter, an account of his struggles with Guillain-Barr Syndrome, a neurological disorder, in 1986.

Thirty-five years after writing his first book, Heller wrote his autobiography, entitled Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here. In his memoirs, Heller reminisces about what it was like growing up in Coney Island in the 1930s and 1940s. On December 13, 1999, Heller died of a heart attack in his home on Long Island. His last novel, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man, was published shortly after his death.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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Library Journal Review

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