# Something Happened

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- Book: [Something Happened](https://www.bookquiver.com/joseph-heller/something-happened) ([Something Happened.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/joseph-heller/something-happened.md))
- Authors: [Joseph Heller](https://www.bookquiver.com/joseph-heller)
- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-433-9
- Pages: 544
- Published: 2019-05-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

FROM THE AUTHOR OF CATCH-22 , SOON TO BE A TV SERIES ON CHANNEL 4 Joseph Heller's other masterpiece - a darkly comic, sometimes tragic satire that does for the American Dream what Catch-22 did for the madness of war 'Joseph Heller's finest achievement' Jonathan Coe Bob Slocum was a promising executive. He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, and as many mistresses as he desired. His life was settled and ordered; he had conformed and society demanded he be happy - or at least pretend to be. But the pretence was becoming more and more difficult, as Slocum's discontent grew into an overwhelming sense of desolation, frustration and fear. And then something happened. . . 'One of the most pleasurable, engrossing, and in retrospect moving American novels ever written… The most criminally overlooked great novel of the past half century is a book called Something Happened ' LA Review of Books