FROM THE AUTHOR OF CATCH-22, SOON TO BE A TV SERIES ON CHANNEL 4 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.
The most criminally overlooked great novel of the past half century is a book called Something Happened'
LA Review of Books. '
One of the most pleasurable, engrossing, and in retrospect moving American novels ever written... . .
And then Something happened.
But the pretence was becoming more and more difficult, as Slocum's discontent grew into an overwhelming sense of desolation, frustration and fear.
His life was settled and ordered; he had conformed and society demanded he be happy - or at least pretend to be.
He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, and as many mistresses as he desired.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF CATCH-22, SOON TO BE A TV SERIES ON CHANNEL 4 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
