This is Joseph Heller's second novel (following the classic CATCH-22). "At once intimate and epic, mournful and funny, it lays bare the parched soul of a society in which surfeit has led to sickness, competition to battle fatigue, and more men die of discontent than in any place on earth." This is the first British edition (with a small London bookseller's sticker on the front pastedown). 569 pages. Light lower spine end wear, a light bump on a few fore-edges, just a bit of other slight wear, with lightly toned pages. The jacket has two short tears, some edge wear (especially at the spine ends and folds), a light corner crease on the back flap (not price-clipped on the front flap).