title: Catch As Catch Can
author:  Joseph Heller 
description: Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn in 1923. He began his career with short stories but won immediate acclaim with CATCH-22 in 1961. He went on to write SOMETHING HAPPENED, GOOD AS GOLD, 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.
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  # Catch as Catch Can
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Malcolm Hollingdrake
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  This edition produced in Great Britain in 2021
  
  
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  Staffordshire, ST21 6NF
  
  
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  Copyright © Malcolm Hollingdrake 2021
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents
  portrayed in this novel are the work of the author’s imagination. Any
  resemblance to actual persons (living or dead), events or localities is
  entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
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