Joseph Heller
1) Catch-22
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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 frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him. A microcosm of the 20th-century world as it might look to someone dangerously sane. The novel lives and moves and grows with astonishing power and vitality -- a masterpiece of our time.
Author
Publisher
D. Quixote
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Portuguese
Description
Passado em Itália durante a II Guerra Mundial, conta a história de um comandante de bombardeiros, um herói incomparável e matreiro, que está furioso porque milhares de pessoas que não conhece de lado nenhum querem matá-lo. Mas o seu verdadeiro problema não é o inimigo - é o seu próprio exército, que está sempre a aumentar o número de missões de voo que os homens têm de cumprir para completarem a sua comissão de serviço. Porém,
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.
Soon to be a Hulu limited series starring Christopher Abbott, George Clooney, Kyle Chandler, and Hugh...
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.
Soon to be a Hulu limited series starring Christopher Abbott, George Clooney, Kyle Chandler, and Hugh...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
A sequel to Catch-22, the 1961 humorous bestseller about a group of American airmen during World War II. The novel follows many of the same characters in their current escapades--mainly to do with selling defense equipment to the Pentagon. In addition, there are their views on the decline of America.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The demented Army Air Force of Catch-22, the lethal business world of Something Happened, the dysfunctional family of Good as Gold - all these, we have assumed, had their roots in Joseph Heller's own past. Now, more than thirty-five years after the explosion of Catch-22 into the world's consciousness, Heller gives us his life. Here is his Coney Island childhood, down the block from the world's most famous amusement park. It was the height of the Depression,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Long before there was a Catch-22, before there was even a Catch-18 (the novel's original title), Joseph Heller had begun sharpening his skills as a writer, searching for the voice that would best express the peculiarly wry view that he held of the world. Starting in 1945, with the publication in Story magazine of the short story "I Don't Love You Anymore," Heller began to reach out to an audience of readers damaged and disillusioned by their experiences...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
English
Description
The play is heavily metatheatrical, being not only staged at but also set at the Ambassador Theatre, the actors playing actors appearing in a play at the Ambassador. This play-within-a-play concerns a strategic bombing squadron; the squadron commander frequently steps out of character to reassure the audience that they are only watching a play. This conceit is carried to the point where the actors themselves exhibit confusion over whether they really...
11) Good as Gold
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
Gold accepts a government post in Washington, considers leaving his wife, and all the while he is also searching for material to write his book on the Jewish experience in America, without realizing he is going through that experience.
Author
Publisher
Samuel French, Inc
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
Yossarian is a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war, and his efforts are perfectly understandable because as he furiously scrambles, thousands of people he hasn't even met are trying to kill him.
14) Picture this
Author
Publisher
Putnam, c1988
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Language
English
15) Catch-22
Language
English
Description
"The story of a group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944"--Excerpted from case.
Author
Publisher
Facts on File Inc, /DBA Infobase Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joseph Heller's Catch22, New Edition offers a varied selection of fulllength essays, a detailed chronology, and a thorough index that provide an ideal critical companion for readers hoping to broaden their appreciation of Heller's modern masterpiece.
17) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Based on the acclaimed Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22 follows the adventures and misadventures of a US air squadron in Italy in World War II, where the real enemy of the soldiers is actually the bureaucracy of the military. --
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on the book 'Sex and the single girl' by Helen Gurley Brown. Snoopy tabloid magazine editor Bob Weston wants to know if author Helen Gurley Brown based her book on, as he believes, personal research. He tries to parley an interview with the author who made headlines and sales. So he decides to get very personal to find out for himself.
