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008			940318r1994 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 94013984
020			_a0671502336
020			_a0671502336 (regular ed.)
020			_a067189854X (limited ed.)
040			_aDLC _cDLC _dDLC
050	0	0	_aPS3558.E476 _bC3 1994
051			_aPZ 7 _b.H477 1994
082	0	0	_aFIC _bH26c 1994
100	1		_aHeller, Joseph. _917450
245	1	0	_aCatch-22 / _cby Joseph Heller.
260			_aNew York : _bSimon & Schuster, _cc1994.
300			_a415 p. ; _c25 cm.
500			_aSequel: Closing time.
520			_aCatch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary. At the heart of Catch-22 resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war. His efforts are perfectly understandable because as he furiously scrambles, thousands of people he hasn't even met are trying to kill him. His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions that he is committed to flying, he is trapped by the Great Loyalty Oath Crusade, the hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule from which the book takes its title: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of such missions, the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. Catch-22 is a microcosm of the twentieth-century world as it might look to some one dangerously sane -- a masterpiece of our time.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xFiction. _917451
655		7	_aWar stories. _2gsafd _94878
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