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Catch 22

Nov 13, 2025 3:33 PM

Author:Joseph Heller

Catch 22

A burlesque epic in the tradition of THE GOOD SOLDIER SCHWEIK, CATCH-22 exposes the absurdity of war by applying its own demented logic to America's involvement in Korea. The 'catch' is that soldiers have to claim to be mad in order to get out of fighting - but being capable of making such a claim automatically proves them sane. With a cast of magnificently larger-than-life characters who are rushed along at a breathless pace, for once this really is a novel it's hard to put down. CATCH-22 was made into a film.

Reviews

If you surrender and go with her, you will find that you have surrendered to enchantments, as if in a voluptuous dream

—— Boston Globe

Anne Rice offers more than just a story; she creates a myth

—— Washington Post Book World

Anne Rice seems to be at home everywhere... She makes us believe everything she sees

—— New York Times Book Review

Like all first-class comedians, he is deadly serious

—— Terry Eagleton , Stand

In his major postwar novels, the pain and earnestness of the individual’s quest for ‘meaning and design’ can be felt more intensely than perhaps anywhere else in contemporary Western prose

—— Sunday Times

An antipodean King Lear writ gentle and tragicomic, almost Chekhovian . . . an intensely dramatic masterpiece.

—— The Australian

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