{"product_id":"9780099477310","title":"Catch-22 - Joseph Heller; Howard Jacobson (Paperback) 06-10-1994 Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 21 2003 and The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003. Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.","description":"\u003cp\u003eWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD JACOBSON Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. 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. Joseph Heller's bestselling novel is a hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Ivybridge Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Joseph Heller; Howard Jacobson \/ Fiction - Paperback \/ 06-10-1994","offer_id":54920191115644,"sku":"9780099477310","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0535\/2344\/8005\/files\/9780099477310.jpg?v=1738602524","url":"https:\/\/www.ivybridgebookshop.com\/products\/9780099477310","provider":"The Ivybridge Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}