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Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel Catch-22 , a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice.
Apr 30, 2024 · Joseph Heller was an American writer whose novel Catch-22 (1961) was one of the most significant works of protest literature to appear after World War II. The satirical novel was a popular success, and a film version appeared in 1970.
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Joseph Heller was a popular and respected writer whose first and best-known novel, Catch-22 (1961), was considered a classic piece of literature in the second half of the twentieth century.
Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller. It is his debut novel . He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961.
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May 29, 2024 · Catch-22, satirical novel by American writer Joseph Heller, published in 1961. The work centers on Captain John Yossarian, stationed in the Mediterranean during World War II, and chronicles his desperate attempts to stay alive, as he concocts ever more inventive ways of escaping his missions.
Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American satirist best remembered for writing the satiric World War II classic novel Catch-22. The literary devices established in this first novel continued in his other books.
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This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction by Christopher Buckley; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos from Joseph Heller’s personal archive; and much more.
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