Catch-22 / Joseph Heller.

Nā:

Heller, Joseph [author.]

Momo rauemi: Text

TextKaiwhakaputa:London : Cape, 1962.Whakaahuatanga: 443 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9781784875848
9780099529118
0224602675
0552081256
0552015008
0440204399
1857152204
0679437223
0099477319
0679437223
0099470462
0684833395
0099529114 (
1784875848

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Catch 22 [Other title]
Catch twenty two

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Genre/Form:

Black humor.

Summary: Catch-22 has been canonised since its first modest print run. It spoke to the Vietnam generation in 1961 with its savage, masculine humour and heartfelt indictment of the grotesque lunacy of warfare. The eponymous Catch-22 states that a man can be exempted from bombing missions if he is mad, but that the desire to be exempted is proof that he is sane. (It would have crept into the English language as Catch-18 but for Leon Uris's novel Mila 18 - Heller wanted to avoid possible mix-ups.) The cavortings of Captain Yossarian with officers, men and Roman prostitutes on the island of Pianosa drive the plot as he desperately tries to reason his way out of imminent death.

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Catch-22 has been canonised since its first modest print run. It spoke to the Vietnam generation in 1961 with its savage, masculine humour and heartfelt indictment of the grotesque lunacy of warfare. The eponymous Catch-22 states that a man can be exempted from bombing missions if he is mad, but that the desire to be exempted is proof that he is sane. (It would have crept into the English language as Catch-18 but for Leon Uris's novel Mila 18 - Heller wanted to avoid possible mix-ups.) The cavortings of Captain Yossarian with officers, men and Roman prostitutes on the island of Pianosa drive the plot as he desperately tries to reason his way out of imminent death.

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