- Published: 2 February 2004
- ISBN: 9780099470465
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 544
- RRP: $22.99
Catch-22

















- Published: 2 February 2004
- ISBN: 9780099470465
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 544
- RRP: $22.99
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
It is the Rock and Roll of novels
Norman Mailer
Catch-22 is the only war novel I've ever read that makes any sense
Harper Lee
Once you "get it" it is a gripping and devastating insight into the pointlessness and bureaucracy of war and its consequences
The Times
The most devastating satire ever written about the lunacy of war and military bureaucracy
Antony Beevor
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
New York Times
Not only the best novel to come out of the war but the best novel to come out of anywhere in years
The Nation
Mournful and joyful...it is masterful
Books Quarterly
The greatest satirical work in the English language since EREHWON
Observer
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
The greatest satirical work in the English language
Philip Toynbee, Observer
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 the Rock and Roll of novels
Norman Mailer
Catch-22 is the only war novel I've ever read that makes any sense
Harper Lee
Once you "get it" it is a gripping and devastating insight into the pointlessness and bureaucracy of war and its consequences
The Times
The most devastating satire ever written about the lunacy of war and military bureaucracy
Antony Beevor