Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Joseph Heller
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Author: Joseph HellerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-10-05
ISBN: 0684865130
Number of pages: 416
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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