Stuff
Product Details
Simon & Schuster, November 1997
Trade Paperback, 576 pages
ISBN-10: 0684841215
ISBN-13: 9780684841212
Description
Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened.
Something Happened is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controversial second novel satirizing business life and American culture. The story is told as if the reader was overhearing the patter of Bob Slocum's brain -- recording what is going on at the office, as well as his fantasies and memories that complete the story of his life. The result is a novel as original and memorable as his Catch-22.
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Browse Inside Something HappenedGuardian.co.uk, November 28, 2009
...of his friend Irwin Shaw, filled him with envy – as, later, did Saul Bellow, John Updike and Joseph Heller (whose Something Happened he read a few pages of, then threw out of the window because he liked it so much). By the mid-50s, he was ...
Evening Herald, April 18, 2009
...difficult second novel haunted Lee and Salinger, who you feel might be justified in quoting Catch 22 author Joseph Heller when he was asked why he had never written anything as good again. 'Neither has anyone else,' he replied. Heller, too, ...
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