Catch-22 (Vintage Classics)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD JACOBSON

Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him. Joseph Heller's bestselling novel is a hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.


It is a rare book in that it has the ability to make you laugh out loud and be deeply moved within a few pages. -- Adam Staten, British Journal of General Practice

Wildly original, brutally gruesome, a dazzling performance that will outrage as many readers as it delights. Vulgarly, bitterly funny, it will not be forgotten by those who can take it, New York Times

Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this, Financial Times

The greatest satirical work in the English language, Philip Toynbee, Observer

Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny, and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this, Financial Times