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Simon & Schuster
September 1996
On Sale: September 4, 1996
464 pages
ISBN: 0684833395
EAN: 9780684833392
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Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest
books ever written, a keystone work in American
literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary.At
the heart of Catch-22 resides the incomparable,
malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly
inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the
horrible chances of war. His efforts are perfectly
understandable because as he furiously scrambles,
thousands of people he hasn't even met are trying to kill
him. His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising
the number of missions the men must fly to complete their
service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse
himself from the perilous missions that he is committed to
flying, he is trapped by the Great Loyalty Oath Crusade,
the hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule from which the
book takes its title: a man is considered insane if he
willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but
if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of
such missions, the very act of making the request proves
that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be
relieved.Catch-22 is a microcosm of the twentieth-century
world as it might look to some one dangerously sane -- a
masterpiece of our time.
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