Something Happened. by Heller, Joseph - 1974

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Signed limited edition of this work by the author of Catch-22, one of 350 numbered copies, this is number 153. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Joseph Heller on the front free endpaper. Fine in a very good dust jacket in a very good slipcase. Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened. Something Happened is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controversial second novel satirizing business life and American culture. The story is told as if the reader was overhearing the patter of Bob Slocum's brain -- recording what is going on at the office, as well as his fantasies and memories that complete the story of his life. The result is a novel as original and memorable as his Catch-22.