About this title: 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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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780345313522ISBN:0345313526
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Tight copy with clean, unmarked pages. No stains or tears, small crease to one page. Cover is shiny and clean with corner bump, small creases and light wear. Firm and sound copy. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 530 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: September 12, 1974
ISBN-13:9780394465685ISBN:0394465687
Description: Good Hardcover in Very Good Dust Jacket. 1974 Borzoi. Dust Jacket has light edge wear. Front endpage missing. Text is clean, bright and unmarked. Tight binding. pp. 569. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780345245755ISBN:034524575X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. First Ballantine Printing. Covers show age but are free of creasing. Spine has wrinkles but no reading creases. Corners are straight. Text is clean and bright. Binding is tight. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York
Date Published: 1974
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. There is a crack in the binding between page 22 and 23, however, there are no loose pages. read more
"When this book was published in 1974, there was rejoicing, because Joseph Heller, author of the monumental Catch-22, had finally brought forth a new novel. The rejoicing stopped as soon as people read it. Something Happened is a long, deliberately static description of a dull, unhappy, quagmired American life. Only at the very end of this unmeandering, unrewarding mass-produced posit does one thing finally Happen. It's a one-joke book where the joke isn't even funny. A huge disappointment."
"Like Catch-22, Heller's second novel is profane, hilarious, and sexist in parts -- and is also one of the most depressing books about relationships between mates and within families that you'll ever read. Don't let that stop you, though -- this is an inexplicably now-overlooked classic."
"Certainly one of the more memorable books I've read...I could talk myself into giving it one star or five depending on my mood. I agree with the description of the reading experience as "hypnotic", but also sympathize with anyone who describes it as "boring". I thought it was incredible, and don't recommend it to anybody."
"It has been nearly a decade since I read strangely-named Something Happened, and few experiences remain as gripping. For substantially all of the book, we follow the inner monologue, pepper with flashbacks, of the protagonist. Though decades, generations, and cultural differences separated me from the protagonist, the portrayal struck me as one of the most honest - and consequently, wrenching - that I had ever read."
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