Catch-22

Informationen zum Autor Joseph Heller was born in 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a bombardier in the Second World War and then attended New York University and Columbia University and then Oxford, the last on a Fullbright scholarship. He then taught for two years at Pennsylvania State University, before returning to New York, where he began a successful career in the advertising departments of Time, Look and McCall's magazines. It was during this time that he had the idea for Catch-22 . Working on the novel in spare moments and evenings at home, it took him eight years to complete and was first published in 1961. His second novel, Something Happened was published in 1974, Good As Gold in 1979 and Closing Time in 1994. He is also the author of the play We Bombed in New Haven . Howard Jacobson has written seventeen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time . In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question ; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J . Klappentext Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1923. In 1961, he published Catch-22, which became a bestseller and, in 1970, a film. He went on to write such novels as Something Happened, God Knows, Picture This, Closing Time (the sequel to Catch-22 ), and Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. Heller died in December 1999. Zusammenfassung SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it. It’s the closing months of World War II and Yossarian has never been closer to death.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Heller
• Assisted by: Howard Jacobson (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.02.2004
• EAN: 9780099470465
• ISBN: 978-0-09-947046-5
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 34 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look; VINTAGE CLASSICS; Vintage Classics New Look
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Literary, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Historical / World War II, FICTION / Satire, Italy, Narrative theme: Interior life, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Satirical fiction and parodies