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One of the great novels of the century.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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.
*British Journal of General Practice*

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
*New York Times*

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

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

An apocalyptic masterpiece
*Chicago Times*

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. -- Adam Staten * British Journal of General Practice *
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 * New York Times *
Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this * Financial Times *
Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny, and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this * Financial Times *
An apocalyptic masterpiece * Chicago Times *