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Catch 22
de Heller, Joseph
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good +/Very Good
- Librería
-
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
London: Janathan Cape, 1962. Book. Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Ex Library Copy With Stamp On Title Page, And Top Edge Of Text Block. Tape Stains On End Papers. A Little Occasional Soiling To A Few Pages. The Second State Jacket Is Near Fine But For Small Tape Stains To Flap Edges. Still A Presentable First Edition Copy Of This Important Book. New Endpapers Would Make It Even Better..
Sinopsis
Catch-22 is Joseph Heller’s first novel and his most acclaimed work. Set during World War II, the novel uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, mainly focusing on the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Occasionally, the narrator also shows us how other characters, such as the chaplain or Hungry Joe, experience the world around them. As the novel’s events are described from the different points of view through separate out-of-sequence storylines, the timeline of Catch-22 develops along with the plot. The novel's title refers to a plot device that is repeatedly invoked in the story. Catch-22 starts as a set of paradoxical requirements whereby airmen mentally unfit to fly did not have to, but could not actually be excused. By the end of the novel, the phrase is invoked as the explanation for many unreasonable restrictions. “Catch-22” has since entered the English language and can be understood as an unsolvable logic puzzle, a difficult situation from which there is no escape. Upon publication, the book was not a best seller in the United States. It was merely a cult favorite until the publication of the paperback edition in 1962, which set record sales — most likely benefitting from a national debate about the pointlessness of the Vietnam War. Catch-22 has since been ranked as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the Modern Library, one of the 20th century's top 100 novels by the Radcliffe Publishing Course, and one of the 100 greatest novels of all time by The Observer.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Renaissance Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 016878
- Título
- Catch 22
- Autor
- Heller, Joseph
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good +
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Editorial
- Janathan Cape
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1962
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Literature
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature;
Términos de venta
Renaissance Books
All books returnable if customer is not satisfied.
Sobre el vendedor
Renaissance Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Victoria, British Columbia
Sobre Renaissance Books
After 30 years with an open shop, Renaissance Books is now online only.
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- New
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
