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CATCH-22
por Heller, Joseph
- Usado
- Perto de Excelente
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Perto de Excelente/NEAR FINE
- Livreiro
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Portland, Oregon, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
Simon and Schuster, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. First Printing. 443 pp. Blue cloth, white stamped spine lettering, red topstain, deckled fore edge. Trivial offsetting to endpapers beyond the DJ flaps and some very faint fading around the extremities, little smudge to FFEP, otherwise very clean and fresh with tight, square binding; DJ shows some light rubbing to tips and a very small nick to tail of spine, else crisp and bright with price of $5.95 intact. A very nice copy of Heller's modern classic, which dared to lampoon even The Great War, mocking the constitutive contradictions of the bureaucratic war machine which it birthed.
Sinopse
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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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Arches Bookhouse
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 503005
- Título
- CATCH-22
- Autor
- Heller, Joseph
- Formato/Encadernação
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Perto de Excelente
- Condição de sobrecapa
- NEAR FINE
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Editorial
- Simon and Schuster
- Data de publicação
- 1961
- Palavras-chave
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Termos da venda
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Sobre o Vendedor
Arches Bookhouse
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Portland, Oregon
Sobre Arches Bookhouse
Brick & mortar humanities bookshop in Portland, OR. Philosophy, history, theology, literature, art.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
