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Something Happened
Something Happened
Author: Joseph Heller
Bob Slocum, a middle manager, sees the office as a place where everyone is afraid of someone else. Heller's celebrated novel, which portrays the corporate world as dangerous to the integrity of the individual, is one of the few works of fiction that takes place largely within the offices of a giant corporation. In addition to being a grippin...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780394465685
ISBN-10: 0394465687
Publication Date: 9/12/1974
Pages: 569
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Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, 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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