num_pages: 463
description: 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
language: English
title: Catch-22
titlecomplete: Catch-22
characters: Doc Daneeka, Major Major Major Major, General Dreedle, Colonel Cathcart, Chief White Halfoat, Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder, Chaplain Tappman, Orr, Nately
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, American, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Unfinished
ratings_count: 816337
places: Italy
series: Catch-22
awards: awardedAt: -252432000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Dell Publishing Co., Inc.