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Автор Джозеф Хеллер

Annotation

In the 1960's, we were never able to look at military life in the same way again. Now Joseph Heller has struck far closer to home.

Something Happened is about ambition, greed, love, lust, hate and fear, marriage and adultery. It is about the struggle among men, the war between the sexes, the conflict of parents and children. It is about the life we all lead today — and you will never be able to look at that life in the same way again.

Once in a decade, something important happens in books. In the 1970's, it is Something Happened.

"Hypnotic, seductive. as clear and as hard-edged as a cut diamond!"

— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. , The New York Times Sunday Book

"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

Something Happened

I get the willies

The office in which I work

My wife is unhappy

My daughter's unhappy

My little boy is having difficulties

It is not true

My boy has stopped talking to me

Nobody knows what I've done

Something Happened

by Joseph Heller

Blurb Pages:

BESTSELLER! BOOK OF THE YEAR! NOVEL OF THE DECADE!

Something Happened

tells the story of:

Bob Slocum, inching his way up the slippery pole to success, with all the money he needs, all the women he wants — yet longing for the one girl who has eluded him, and the life he has not lived.

* His wife, who has learned to settle for sex instead of love, and is an eager apprentice at the art of infidelity.

* His teen-age daughter, who is into doing her own thing on the far-out side of the generation gap.

* His son, who stubbornly refuses to learn to compete in the all-American way.

* His other son, whom nobody wants to talk about.

How Joseph Heller tells their story, and the shocking surprises he has in store, demonstrate once again his power in driving home human truths in a way that entertains even as it exposes the agonies and absurdities of our time.

"Joseph Heller has discovered and possessed new territories of the imagination, and he has produced a major work of fiction, one that is as distinctive of its kind as Catch-22, but more ambitious and profound, a brilliant commentary on American life that must surely be considered as the most important novel in at least a decade!"

— John W. Aldridge in Saturday Review/World

"Endlessly fascinating. Maintains Heller in the first rank of American writers. The vision we get is one of chilling recognition. What is revealed is not really the hero at all, but ourselves. Me. You. Them. "

— William Kennedy in The New Republic

"Catch-22 became the novel of the 60s. Now Heller has provided the novel of and from the 70s. In his first book Heller took on the military system. This time he's undoing the American Dream. "

— Larry Swindell in the Philadelphia Inquirer

"Riveting. with a brilliant and exquisitely prepared-for shock ending that makes everything fall into place. you have to take it seriously!"

— Mary Ellin Barrett in Cosmopolitan

"It will be read and read and read!"