Something Happened: Joseph Heller

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. . .