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SOMETHING HAPPENED

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Random House Digital, Inc., Sep 7, 2011 - Fiction - 576 pages
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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User Review  - Rick Bowen - Goodreads

Was convinced when I first read it that this was the most important literary work of Heller's generation (the generation BTW 30 years before mine). Ostensibly a performance piece a la Portnoy's ... Read full review

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User Review  - James - Goodreads

"A slow mundane piss into the wind". Read full review

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Contents

I get the willies
The office in which I work
My wife is unhappy
My daughters unhappy
My little boy is having difficulties
It is not true
Theres no getting away from it
My boy has stopped talking to me
Nobody knows what Ive done
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Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn in 1923. In 1961, he published Catch-22, which became a bestseller and, in 1970, a film. He went on to write such novels as Something Happened, 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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