Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1923. In 1961, he published Catch-22, which became a bestseller and, in 1970, a film. He went on to write such novels as Something Happened, God Knows, Picture This, Closing Time (the sequel to Catch-22), and Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. Heller died in December 1999.

‘Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this’ Financial Times

‘The war novel to end all war novels.’ Independent

‘Catch-22 is the only war novel I’ve ever read that makes any sense.’ Harper Lee

‘To my mind, there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. Catch-22 is one.’ Stephen King

‘Never has a book been laughed and wept over so many times.’ Guardian