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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller

Catch-22
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Author: Joseph Heller
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-09-04
ISBN: 0684833395
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Book Review: brilliant, sensual,vivid, dramatic,disturbing..and hilarious
Summary: 5 Stars

Is it possible for a book to merit all the above adjectives above? Yes, if it is Catch-22; in the setting of World War II, Heller depicts the sheer waste and tragedy for humans, when 'nations' are at war. Catch-22 seeks to show the waste exemplified by the War , without ever depicting a direct attack by the enemy, the Germans. The protagonist of the book, Yossarian, sees through the sham that war is, and questions his superiors relentlessly about their ideas of patriotism, when it is he who is going to die 'for the country'. the novel moves back and forth in time, through events and from the farcical to the tragic at a machine-gun pace. Yet within this seeming disarray, a tale builds up- in the end you wonder who the real enemy is - the Germans or Yossarian's superiors.

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