![]() By the mid-1960's, it had become a cult classic among counterculture activists for its biting indictments of war. When the novel appeared in 1961, World War II veterans appreciated its satire of the military bureaucracy and chaos of war. In Heller's World War II, a supplies manager has more power than a general, and anyone seeking a discharge on the grounds of insanity is declared sane enough to keep on fighting. "Catch-22, Joseph Heller's first and best-known novel, depicts a military world turned upside down. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. ![]() The two agree that gaining knowledge has been more substantive than gaining wealth throughout both of their lives. In a few verses, Vonnegut expresses his admiration for the late Heller and his friend’s philosophy about the meaning of life. In 2005, six years after Heller’s death, Vonnegut published a short poem in The New Yorker with the title ‘Joe Heller.’ The poem recalled a conversation Vonnegut and Heller shared at a party hosted by a billionaire on Shelter Island. Like Catch-22, by Vonnegut’s friend, Joseph Heller, Slaughterhouse-Five was a World War II novel embraced by opponents of the Vietnam War, linking a so-called “good war” to the unpopular conflict of the 1960s and ’70s. Additionally signed by author Kurt Vonnegut on the front free endpaper, who has added a self-caricature. Boldly signed by Joseph Heller on the title page. ![]() ![]() Item Number: 99680įirst edition of one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century. ![]()
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