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Something Happened
Something Happened
Author: Joseph Heller
This is Joseph Heller's first book after CATCH-22, and in it he explores the wartime generation's new predicament...as husband, progenitor, provider and survivalist. What happened to all the youthful dreams and those who peopled them? Gone to ruin. Because Heller is an architect of his age, his comments on the rubble contain more irony than perh...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780345288561
ISBN-10: 0345288564
Publication Date: 11/12/1979
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  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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4.3 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Mass Market 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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