About this item
Catch- is like no other novel we have ever read It has its own style 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 originalIt is set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy Its hero is a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasnt even met keep trying to kill him He has decided to live forever even if he has to die in the attemptCatch- 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 It is we believe one of the strongest creations of the mid-centuryPerformed by Jay O Sanders.
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 (the sequel to Catch-22) , and Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. Heller died in December 1999.
