Wildly original, brutally gruesome,a dazzling performance that will outrage as many readers as it delights.Vulgarly,bitterly, savagely funny, it will not be forgotten by those who can take it.

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.Hilarious and tragic,at its heart is a savage indictment of twentieth-century madness, and a desire of the ordinary man to survive it.