It was love at first sight.
An edition of Catch-22
(1961)
Catch-22
1st Scribner paperback fiction edition
by Joseph Heller
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Catch-22 is like no other novel. It has 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 original. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. Catch-22 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 -- a masterpiece of our time. - Back cover.
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Open Library Staff Picks, Satire, War stories, Fiction, Drama, World War, 1939-1945, Catch-22 (Heller, Joseph), World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Fictional Works Publication Type, Bombardiers, American Aerial operations, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Fiction, war & military, American fiction (fictional works by one author), World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Fiction, satire, Large type books, Literature and fiction, historical fiction, Psychology, Roman, American, Guerre mondiale (1939-1945), American War stories, Aerial Military operations, Amerikanisches Englisch, United States. Army Air Forces, United States, World War, 1939-1945 / Fiction, World war, 1939-1945--aerial operations, american, World war, 1939-1945--aerial operations, american--fiction, Bombardiers--fiction, World war, 1939-1945--fiction, Ps3558.e476 c3 2011b, 813/.54 [fic]Places
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Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition [Hardcover]
April 5, 2011, Simon & Schuster
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Book Details
First Sentence
"It was love at first sight."
Table of Contents
Preface to the special edition of Catch-22
The Texan
Clevinger
Havermeyer
Doc Daneeka
Chief White Halfoat
Hungry Joe
McWatt
Lieutenant Scheisskopf
Major Major Major Major
Wintergreen
Captain Black
Bologna
Major de Coverly
Kid Sampson
Piltchard & Wren
Luciana
The soldier in white
The soldier who saw everything twice
Colonel Cathcart
Corporal Whitcomb
General Dreedle
Milo the Mayor
Nately's old man
Milo
The chaplain
Aarfy
Nurse Duckett
Dobbs
Peckem
Dunbar
Mrs. Daneeka
Yo-Yo's roomies
Nately's whore
Thanksgiving
Milo the Militant
The cellar
General Scheisskopf
Kid sister
The eternal city
Catch-22
Snowden
Yossarian
Edition Notes
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Genres 2
Classic
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Satire
25%
Humor
25%
Mood 1
Gloomy
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Dark
33%
Humorous
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| March 3, 2024 | Edited by Parkado | Original poster most likely meant the Vintage selection of Joseph Hellers book Catch-22. Changes are made to reflect that. TV Tie-in was while known as non-official title self-imposed by bookstores it was still Vintage series book. Page count counted in all the pages not the content. Changed it to reflect the pages of the book not including title, metadata etc. |
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