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.
It is a rare book in that it has the ability to make you laugh out loud and be deeply moved within a few pages.
Wildly original, brutally gruesome, a dazzling performance that will outrage as many readers as it delights. Vulgarly, bitterly funny, it will not be forgotten by those who can take it
Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this
Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny, and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this
An apocalyptic masterpiece
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.