Something Happened Av Joseph Heller

<p><b>FROM THE AUTHOR OF <i>CATCH-22</i>, SOON TO BE A TV SERIES ON CHANNEL 4 </b><br><b><br>Joseph Heller''s <i>other</i> masterpiece - a darkly comic, sometimes tragic satire that does for the American Dream what <i>Catch-22</i> did for the madness of war</b><br><br><b>''Joseph Heller''s finest achievement'' Jonathan Coe<br><br></b>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. <br><br>And then something happened. . .<br><br><b>''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 <i>Something Happened</i>'' <i>LA Review of Books</i></b></p>