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Fifty years after its original publication, catch 22 remains a cornerstone of american literature and one of the funniest and most celebrated novels of all time. Christopher buckley is a novelist, essayist, humorist, critic, magazine editor, and memoirist. Here are our closest matches for catch 22 by joseph heller. This week is the 50th anniversary of joseph hellers satirical war novel catch22. Catch 22 is a satirical novel by the american author joseph heller. Joseph heller may 1, 1923 december 12, 1999 was an american author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. Catch 22 is the fiction, literature, thriller, wwii, history and redemption novel which plots the story of a war agent who wanted to quit his job. Harper lee one of the greatest antiwar books ever written. Set on the tiny island of pianosa in the mediterranean sea, the novel is devoted to a long series of impossible, illogical adventures engaged in by the members of the 256th bombing squadron, an unlikely combat group whose fanatical commander, colonel cathcart. Follows captain john yossarian and airmen in world war ii. Catch 22 is still the only book i have ever read twice in a row. In recent years, it has been named to best novels lists by time, newsweek, the modern library, and the london observer. Joseph heller was the son of poor jewish parents from russia.
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