Catch-22

Description:

*Catch-22* is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off Italy, *Catch-22* is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. *Catch-22* is a microcosm of the twentieth-century world as it might look to someone dangerously sane. It is a novel that lives and moves and grows with astonishing power and vitality -- a masterpiece of our time. - Back cover.

subjects: Open Library Staff Picks,  Satire,  War stories,  Fiction,  Drama,  World War, 1939-1945,  Catch-22 (Heller, Joseph),  World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924,  Fictional Works Publication Type,  Bombardiers,  American Aerial operations,  Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945,  Fiction, war & military,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  World war, 1939-1945, fiction,  Fiction, satire,  Large type books,  Literature and fiction, historical fiction,  Psychology,  Roman,  American,  Guerre mondiale (1939-1945),  American War stories,  Aerial Military operations,  Amerikanisches Englisch,  United States. Army Air Forces,  United States,  World War, 1939-1945 / Fiction,  World war, 1939-1945--aerial operations, american,  World war, 1939-1945--aerial operations, american--fiction,  Bombardiers--fiction,  World war, 1939-1945--fiction,  Ps3558.e476 c3 2011b,  813/.54 [fic],  Long Now Manual for Civilization

Places: Italy

Times: 1943