"Joseph Heller (1923-1999), die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog diende bij de Amerikaanse luchtmacht, schreef in 1961 de klassieker Catch-22. Het geldt nog steeds als ‘het ultieme boek over de waanzin van de oorlog’. Joseph Heller schreef o.a. ook de romans Het voorval, Eerlijk als Gold, Sluitingstijd en het autobiografische Terug naar Coney Island. Op bol.com vind je alle boeken van Joseph Heller.

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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 Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him.



Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. 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 Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. His real problem is not the enemy - it is his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. If Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions then he is caught in Catch-22: if he flies he is crazy, and doesn't have to; but if he doesn't want to he must be sane and has to. That's some catch...

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Joseph Heller (1923–1999), who died serving in the US Air Force during World War II, wrote the classic Catch-22 in 1961. It is still considered ‘the ultimate book on the madness of war’.