Book Description
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It has 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.
Set in the closing months of World War II in an American
bomber squadron off Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a
bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious
because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to
kill him. 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 -- a masterpiece of
our time.