Joseph Heller

2 summariesHistorical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Joseph Heller was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. He was nominated in 1972 for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Books by Joseph Heller

2 books available

Catch-22
Joseph Heller
4.0 (723k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction
In the chaos of WWII, Captain Yossarian desperately navigates a military where the only sane choice is to pretend madness, all to escape endless bombing missions and survive.
Something Happened
Joseph Heller
3.5 (7k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
Bob Slocum's mind unravels amid corporate absurdities, domestic anxieties, and sexual fantasies in a successful yet suffocating life, all moving toward an unnamed catastrophe.