{"product_id":"catch-22-english-edition-joseph-heller","title":"Catch-22, English edition (Joseph Heller)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's the closing months of World War II and Yossarian has never been closer to death. Stationed in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, each flight mission introduces him to thousands of people determined to kill him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut the enemy above is not Yossarian's problem - it is his own army intent on keeping him airborne, and the maddening 'Catch-22' that allows for no possibility of escape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The greatest satirical work in the English language' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The most devastating satire ever written about the lunacy of war and military bureaucracy' Antony Beevor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCED BY HOWARD JACOBSON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJoseph Heller\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a bombardier in the Second World War and then attended New York University and Columbia University and then Oxford, the last on a Fullbright scholarship. He then taught for two years at Pennsylvania State University, before returning to New York, where he began a successful career in the advertising departments of \u003ci\u003eTime, Look\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMcCall's\u003c\/i\u003e magazines. It was during this time that he had the idea for \u003ci\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e. Working on the novel in spare moments and evenings at home, it took him eight years to complete and was first published in 1961. His second novel, \u003ci\u003eSomething Happened\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1974, \u003ci\u003eGood As Gold\u003c\/i\u003e in 1979 and \u003ci\u003eClosing Time\u003c\/i\u003e in 1994. He is also the author of the play \u003ci\u003eWe Bombed in New Haven\u003c\/i\u003e.\n\u003cb\u003eHoward Jacobson\u003c\/b\u003e has written eighteen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for \u003ci\u003eThe Mighty Walzer\u003c\/i\u003e and then again in 2013 for\u003ci\u003e Zoo Time\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Finkler Question\u003c\/i\u003e; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for \u003ci\u003eJ\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-Format, Englisch, 544 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65811854885213,"sku":"K029994425","price":11.6,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/2999442500001A.jpg?v=1788526895","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/catch-22-english-edition-joseph-heller","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}