• .

  • 

  • Funny book, but it took me some time to get through it. Wasn't a page turner in my opinion

    

    Is this helpful?

• ― Dave Sanders said on Feb 12, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

Catch-22 is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, 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.

It is set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy. Its hero is a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. (He has decided to live forever even if he has to die in the attempt.)

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. It is, we believe, one of the strongest creations of the mid-century.

Performed by Jay O. Sanders

Margin notes of this book

• I do not ownNoveloak bookcaseclassicspaperbackfictionMy favoritesLiterature1961-presentamerican lit
• See all (15)