UID:
kobvindex_ZLB16313170
ISBN:
9781446424049
,
9781446424049
Content:
" 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."
Content:
Rezension(1): " Joseph Heller 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 Time, Look and McCall's magazines. It was during this time that he had the idea for Catch-22. 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, Something Happened was published in 1974, Good As Gold in 1979 and Closing Time in 1994. He is also the author of the play We Bombed in New Haven. Joseph Heller died in 1999." Rezension(2): "Financial Times:Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this" Rezension(3): "New York Times: Wildly original, brutally gruesome, a dazzling performance that will outrage as many readers as it delights. Vulgarly, bitterly funny, it will not be forgotten by those who can take it" Rezension(4): "Andy McNab, Spectator:My all-time favourite war-novel" Rezension(5): "Philip Toynbee, Observer:The greatest satirical work in the English language" Rezension(6): "British Journal of General Practice:It is a rare book in that it has the ability to make you laugh out loud and be deeply moved within a few pages." Rezension(7): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from April 30, 2007 It would be difficult to imagine richer material for an audiobook reader, comedically speaking, than Joseph Heller’, classic novel of wartime madness. Sanders is the lucky actor chosen to read Heller’, masterpiece, and he does well by it, proceeding gamely through the novel’, staggering array of comic set pieces and deliriously woozy dialogue. Heller’, humor is straight-faced, requiring little more than a steady, sure voice, and Sanders offers just that. Line by line, joke by joke, Sanders reels through the marvelous phantasmagoria of Heller’, World War II, tongue planted firmly in cheek. Caedmon’, impressive package includes a 1970s-era recording of Heller reading selections from his book. Heller is a delightful contrast to Sanders, his slight lisp accentuating a marvelous Brooklyn accent. Heller reads as if with cigar perched on his lip and turns his novel into an extended borscht belt comic’, riff. "
Language:
English
URL:
https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0211-1/0CB/15A/36/Catch229781446424049.epub
URL:
https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0CB15A36-79DA-4891-B4DD-9ECDA08BCBDE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
URL:
http://voebb.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=0CB15A36-79DA-4891-B4DD-9ECDA08BCBDE
Author information:
Heller, Joseph
