The Good Word - Tonight at 9.05pm on TVNZ 7

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Emily Perkins and panellists Te Radar, Miriama Kamo and Gordon McLauchlan review Catch 22 by Joseph Heller; Robyn Malcolm shares a favourite book; and Finlay Macdonald looks at a Damien Wilkins book. 

Footnote:

I will take special interest in their review of Catch-22 as I recently purchased the 50th anniversary edition. Although Catch-22 is a phrase I often use I found I could no longer recall much detail about the famous book from which the phrase comes.

As US publishers Simon & schuster say - Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American lit-erature and one of the funniest—and most celebrated—novels of all time. In recent years it has been named to “best novels” lists by Time, Newsweek, the Modern Library, and the London Observer.

Below: Various cover treatments. 

About the author:

Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1923. In 1961, he published Catch-22, which became a bestseller and, in 1970, a film. He went on to write such novels as Something Happened, God Knows, Picture This, Closing Time (the sequel to Catch-22), and Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. Heller died in December 1999.