Catch 22

Joseph Heller

A burlesque epic in the tradition of THE GOOD SOLDIER SCHWEIK, CATCH-22 exposes the absurdity of war by applying its own demented logic to America's involvement in Korea. The 'catch' is that soldiers have to claim to be mad in order to get out of fighting - but being capable of making such a claim automatically proves them sane.

Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

	Preț	Express
Paperback (1)	110^.24 lei 3-5 săpt.
Concord Theatricals – 2 iun 2015	110^.24 lei 3-5 săpt.
Hardback (1)	90^.96 lei 22-33 zile	+40^.38 lei 6-12 zile
EVERYMAN – 21 sep 1995	90^.96 lei 22-33 zile	+40^.38 lei 6-12 zile

Descriere

Descriere de la o altă ediție sau format:

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.)

His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men have to fly.

The others range from Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder, a dedicated entrepreneur (he bombs his own airfield when the Germans make him a reasonable offer: cost plus 6%), to the dead man in Yossarian's tent; from Major Major Major, whose tragedy is that he resembles Henry Fonda, to Nately's whore's kid sister; from Lieutenant Scheisskopf (he loves a parade) to Major -- de Coverley, whose face is so forbidding no one has ever dared ask him his first name; from Clevinger, who is lost in the clouds, to the soldier in white, who lies encased in bandages from head to toe and may not even be there at all; from Dori Duz, who does, to the wounded gunner Snowden, who lies dying in the tail of Yossarian's plane and at last reveals his terrifying secret.

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.

As revealing today as when it was first published, this brilliant novel by the author of Picture This expresses the concerns of an entire generation in its black comedy. World War II flier John Yossarian decides that his only mission each time he goes up is to return—alive!

Catch 22

Toate formatele și edițiile

Preț: 110^.24 lei

Carte disponibilă

Specificații

Descriere

Papetărie, jocuri, reviste

Catch 22

Toate formatele și edițiile

Preț: 110.24 lei

Specificații

V-ar putea interesa

Descriere

Preț: 110^.24 lei