| Catch-22: Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury Contributor(s): Heller, Joseph (Author), Bradbury, Malcolm (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0679437223 ISBN-13: 9780679437222 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $27.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1995 Annotation: Catch-22 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. National ads/media. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | War & Military |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 95234876 |
| Lexile Measure: 1140 |
| Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.37" H x 5.28" W x 8.4" (1.42 lbs) 624 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 16708 Reading Level: 7.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 30.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Named one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. One of the funniest books ever written, Joseph Heller's masterpiece about a bomber squadron in the Second World War's Italian theater features a gallery of magnificently strange characters seething with comic energy. The malingering hero, Yossarian, is endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war, and his story is studded with incidents and devices (including the Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade and the hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule that gives the book its title) that propel the narrative in a headlong satiric rush. But the reason Catch-22's satire never weakens and its jokes never date stems not from the comedy itself but from the savage, unerring, Swiftian indignation out of which that comedy springs. This fractured anti-epic, with all its aggrieved humanity, has given us the most enduring image we have of modern warfare. This hardcover Everyman's Library edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury, a chronology of the author's life and times, and a select bibliography. It is printed on acid-free paper, with sewn bindings, full-cloth covers, foil stamping, and a silk ribbon marker. |