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Joseph Heller
This zany, sexy version of the story of King David, told as a modern allegory of what it is like for a Jew to survive in a hostile world, is…
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VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful
A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most subversive anti-war novels ever written - reading Catch-22 is a rite of passage.
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Reading Joseph Heller’s classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named…
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Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is…
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Joseph Heller’s World War II satire, Catch-22 , poses the moral dilemma of how to remain sane in an insane world. It also introduced the Catch-22 catchphrase into everyday vernacular…
Ram Kishore
Subversion is Heller’s key technique in Catch-22. He uses old tools like burlesque, irony and parody in a new way and new ones like Black Humor to drive home his…
Joseph Heller’s satire Catch-22 presents war, driven by state bureaucracies, as a form of institutional psychosis. Soldiers, trapped in the circular logic of an obscure army regulation, find themselves in…
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David Seed
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, which eponymously coined the term so frequently used today to describe the predicament of being…
Tracy Daugherty
Daugherty illuminates his most vital subject yet in this first biography of Joseph Heller. His life was filled with romantic indiscretions, but he was perhaps more famous for his friendships–he…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for…
This study of The Stern Gang attempts to demythologize the image of this extremist, Zionist underground group.
Bob Slocum is anxious, bored and fearful of his job. So why is it he wants nothing more than the chance to speak at the next company convention? In this…
On paper, Bruce Gold seems to have carved a comfortable niche for himself. His ancient father thinks he’s a fool, his children fail to notice him and even his wife…
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This book presents a comprehensive history of the modern Middle East and Arab-Israeli conflict through the Cold War, focusing on relations between the region and the two superpowers. – .
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
This richly illustrated book presents the diversity and natural history of sea snail groups.
From the author of legendary novel Catch-22 comes a slyly funny, vastly revelatory memoir that is at once a loving evocation of a lost America and an exploration of the…
The previously uncollected writings of Joseph Heller, including hitherto unpublished stories, lost chapters from CATCH-22 and further tales from that novel’s unforgettable ‘hero’, Yossarian.
From the author of Catch-22 comes a compelling, funny and ultimately shocking tale of a corporate executive whose drives and fears stem from an obsession deep within his soul.
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This story exposes the absurdity of war by applying its own demented logic to America’s involvement in Korea. The catch is that soldiers must claim to be mad in order…
More than 30 years after his Catch-22 so memorably–and hilariously–captured the ultimate absurdity of war, Heller brings his ferocious humor and intelligence to bear on what has happened since the…
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Stephen W. Potts
Potts here provides a comprehensive critical examination of Joseph Heller’s literary career, from his earliest published short stories to Closing Time (1994), the long-awaited sequel to Catch-22. Complete with Chronology…
Dr. Bruce Gold, a forty-eight-year-old Jewish professor of English, faces the possibilities of being appointed to a high State Department position and being disowned by his family.
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Heller once again comments on all of society and history with this whirlwind tour through the minds of Aristotle and Rembrandt… . History as told by Heller is so comic…
Erica Heller
Catch-22 author Joseph Heller’s daughter, who grew up in New York’s posh Apthorp apartment building, here recalls a childhood that felt charmed despite her parents’ over-the-top divorce.
D. Simmons
The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural…
Depicts the struggles of a U.S. airman attempting to survive the lunacy and depravity of a World War II base.
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. Stationed in an…
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Reading Joseph Heller’s classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast…
Joseph Finder
Nick Heller is a high-powered investigator with a corporate intelligence firm. When his estranged brother disappears, Nick finds himself on a collision course with some of the most powerful, and…
Patricia Chapman Meder
After the publication of his best-selling novel, Joseph Heller usually chose to deny that any of his richly drawn characters were based on his actual war mates.
In this book we encounter the real men and combat missions on which Catch 22 was based. Blending fact, fancy, and history with full-blown original illustrations and rare, previously unpublished…
