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Something Happened
Something Happened
Author: Joseph Heller
Bob Slocum is a promising executive and society demands that he should be happy. But his wife is a drunken flirt and his daughter wages her own cunning campaign against him. Slocum's soliloquy moves to a shocking climax as fate hands him a tragic focus for his despair.
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ISBN-13: 9780345245755
ISBN-10: 034524575X
Publication Date: 8/12/1975
Pages: 529
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  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 5 ratings
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Saturday Review called it "The most important novel of the decade."
By the author of "Catch-22."
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Itis about greed,ambition,love,lust,hate and fear,marriage and adultry, it is about the struggle among men,the war between the sexes, and the conflict of parents and children. It is about the life we all lear today- and you will never be able to look at that life in the sme again.
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This book deserves more attention.
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I think it may be Heller's best, and that says quite a lot.
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Heller at his best
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The test of a novel is when it deserves to be read a second time. People will be rereading SOMETHING HAPPENED and fifty years from now they'll be reading it still. -- Philadelphia Inquirer


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