Catch 22

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: Reprint

Description: 540 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Set At The Close Of WWII Is The Story Of A Bombardier Named Yossarian Who Is Furious Because Thousands Of People He Has Never Met Are Trying To Kill Him.

Publishers Description: Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. His real problem is not the enemy - it is his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. If Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions then he is caught in Catch-22: if he flies he is crazy, and doesn't have to; but if he doesn't want to he must be sane and has to. That's some catch...

ISBN: 9780099529125