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undergoes in the novel reflects Kerouac's own increasing disenchantment with the Buddhist philosophy with which he had previously been fascinated

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Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities

Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition Health & Spirituality radio messages sent by MarinesExplosive, 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, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. His real problem is not the enemy it is his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions