Catch 22, English edition
As recommended on BBC2's Between the Covers
(Sprache: Englisch)
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD JACOBSON
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...
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...
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD JACOBSONExplosive, 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 in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him. Joseph Heller's bestselling novel is a hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.
Autoren-Porträt von Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller was born in 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a bombardier in the Second World War and then attended New York University and Columbia University and then Oxford, the last on a Fullbright scholarship. He then taught for two years at Pennsylvania State University, before returning to New York, where he began a successful career in the advertising departments of Time, Look and McCall's magazines. It was during this time that he had the idea for Catch-22. Working on the novel in spare moments and evenings at home, it took him eight years to complete and was first published in 1961. His second novel, Something Happened was published in 1974, Good As Gold in 1979 and Closing Time in 1994. He is also the author of the play We Bombed in New Haven.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Joseph Heller
- Altersempfehlung:
- 1994, 528 Seiten, Masse: 13 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Random House UK
- ISBN-10: 0099477319
- ISBN-13: 9780099477310
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2001
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Wildly original, brutally gruesome, a dazzling performance that will outrage as many readers as it delights. Vulgarly, bitterly, savagely funny, it will not be forgotten by those who can take it" New York Times "Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny, and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this" Financial Times "Not only the best novel to come out of the war but the best novel to come out of anywhere in years" The Nation "The greatest satirical work in the English language since EREHWON" -- Philip Tonybee Observer "An apocalyptic masterpiece" Chicago Times
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It is a rare book in that it has the ability to make you laugh out loud and be deeply moved within a few pages. Adam Staten British Journal of General Practice
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