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George Clooney and Grant Heslov codirect and costar in this new six-episode television adaptation of Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel, Catch-22. With a screenplay by Luke Davies and David Michôd, the series stars Christopher Abbot as Yossarian, Kyle Chandler as Colonel Cathcart, and Hugh Laurie as Major de Coverley.
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Earlier this year Simon & Schuster released a fiftieth-anniversary edition of Joseph Heller's Catch-22, the satrical novel set during World War II that is frequently cited as one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. Heller began writing it in 1953, and the novel was first published in November 1961.
Tags: Simon & Schuster | book trailer | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | Fiction