Rank 85 of 100
Catch-22
Synopsis
Yossarian, a bombardier, wants to be grounded because the missions will kill him. The rule says that anyone who flies them must be sane, and anyone sane would refuse, which proves he is fit to fly. Heller’s wartime farce keeps circling until the joke and the body count are the same sentence.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1961
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Satire, War
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 1946–1999
- Movement
- Postwar
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 453 pages
- Reported copies
- Tens of millions of copies
- Kind
- Fiction