CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller

CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller

Author(s)	Joseph Heller
Cover artist	Paul Bacon
Country	USA
Language	English
Genre(s)	Black humor, satire, war fiction, historical fiction
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Publication date	11 November 1961
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	453 pp (1st edition hardback)
ISBN	0-684-83339-5
OCLC Number	35231812
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 22
LC Classification	PS3558.E476 C3 2004
Followed by	Closing Time (1994)

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Catch-22 is a satirical, historical novel by the American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953, and the novel was first published in 1961. It is set during World War II in 1943 and is frequently cited as one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. It uses a distinctive non-chronological third person omniscient narration, describing events from different characters' points of view and out of sequence so that the time line develops along with the plot.
The novel follows Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier, and a number of other characters. Most events occur while the Airmen of the fictional 256th squadron are based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea west of Italy.
The title refers to what has become known, from the novel, as Catch-22 (logic), based on the explanation of the character Doc Daneeka as to why any pilot requesting a psych evaluation hoping to be found not sane enough to fly, and thereby escape dangerous missions, would thereby demonstrate his sanity:




Rankings:

• The Modern Library ranked Catch-22 as the 7th (by review panel) and 12th (by public) greatest English language novel of the twentieth century.
• The Radcliffe Publishing Course rank Catch-22 as number 15 of the twentieth century's top 100 novels.
• The Observer listed Catch-22 as one of the 100 greatest novels of all time.
• TIME puts Catch-22 in the top 100 English language modern novels (1923 onwards, unranked).
• The Big Read by the BBC ranked Catch-22 as number 11 on a web poll of the UK's best-loved book.

Adaptations:

• Catch-22 was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 1970, directed by Mike Nichols.
• Aquila Theatre produced a stage adaptation of Catch-22, based on Heller's 1971 stage adaption. It was directed by Peter Meineck. This production toured the USA in 2007/8 with a New York City production in the fall of 2008.
• A pilot for a comedy series based upon Catch-22 was made and televised in 1973, with Richard Dreyfuss in the starring role of Capt. Yossarian.
• The ska band Catch 22 took its name from the book.

Source: Wikipedia