Catch-22

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$19.99  $18.59
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publish Date
Pages
544
Dimensions
5.8 X 8.38 X 1.34 inches | 0.94 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781451626650

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About the Author
Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn in 1923. In 1961, he published Catch-22, which became a bestseller and, in 1970, a film. He went on to write such novels as Good as Gold, God Knows, Picture This, Closing Time, and Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. Heller died in 1999.

Christopher Buckley is a novelist, essayist, humorist, critic, magazine editor and memoirist. His books include Thank You for Smoking, The Judge Hunter, and The Relic Master. He worked as a merchant seaman and White House speechwriter. He has written for many newspapers and magazines and has lectured in over seventy cities around the world. He was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor and the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence.
Reviews
"Catch-22 is the only war novel I've ever read that makes any sense." --Harper Lee
"One of the most bitterly funny works in the language . . . Explosive, bitter, subversive, brilliant." --The New Republic
"To my mind, there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. Catch-22 is one." --Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly
"This novel is not merely the best American novel to come out of World War II, it is the best American novel that has come out of anywhere in years." --Nelson Algren, The Nation
"It's the rock and roll of novels . . . There's no book like it. . . . Surprisingly powerful." --Norman Mailer, Esquire
"One of the greatest anti-war books ever written." --Vanity Fair