Something Happened
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Behind the polished veneer of postwar American success lies a man quietly unraveling — and in Something Happened, Joseph Heller strips that veneer away with surgical, unsettling precision. Bob Slocum, a mid-level corporate executive with a wife, children, a house, and a mistress, has everything society promised him and yet is consumed by an all-pervasive dread he cannot name, a gnawing anxiety that infects every corner of his domestic and professional life. Heller's second novel — long-awaited after the seismic success of Catch-22 — abandons the satirical battlefield for the quieter, more insidious theatre of suburban conformity. Written in a relentless, circling interior monologue, the novel dissects the American Dream not with explosions but with a slow, suffocating pressure, confronting the reader with the terrifying possibility that ordinariness itself is the greatest trap of all. Dark, formally daring, and profoundly disquieting, Something Happened leaves its final revelation echoing long after the last page is turned.
Author: Joseph Heller
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, Alfred A. Knopf
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Behind the polished veneer of postwar American success lies a man quietly unraveling — and in Something Happened, Joseph Heller strips that veneer away with surgical, unsettling precision. Bob Slocum, a mid-level corporate executive with a wife, children, a house, and a mistress, has everything society promised him and yet is consumed by an all-pervasive dread he cannot name, a gnawing anxiety that infects every corner of his domestic and professional life. Heller's second novel — long-awaited after the seismic success of Catch-22 — abandons the satirical battlefield for the quieter, more insidious theatre of suburban conformity. Written in a relentless, circling interior monologue, the novel dissects the American Dream not with explosions but with a slow, suffocating pressure, confronting the reader with the terrifying possibility that ordinariness itself is the greatest trap of all. Dark, formally daring, and profoundly disquieting, Something Happened leaves its final revelation echoing long after the last page is turned.