Something Happened
by Heller, Joseph
- Used
- Condition
- Book VG+: writing on FFEP, else clean, square, tight, unmarked/DJ VG: spine mildly sunned, age toning, not clipped
- ISBN 10
- 0394465687
- ISBN 13
- 9780394465685
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. hardcover. Book VG+: writing on FFEP, else clean, square, tight, unmarked/DJ VG: spine mildly sunned, age toning, not clipped. 8vo 569pp. second printing before publication. from front flap: "This is Joseph Heller's first novel since Catch-22, which was published in 1961 and has become the most celebrated novel of its decade--speaking for and to an entire American generation. Something Happened is different from Catch-22 in both substance and tone, but it is certain to have a comparable effect." #02089.
Synopsis
Something Happened is a 1974 novel by Joseph Heller. His second novel (release thirteen years after Catch-22), it turns the focus of the same jaundiced eye from life in the military to the work and home life of Corporate Man living the American Dream. Something Happened has a much darker tone than its predecessor.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2027
- Title
- Something Happened
- Author
- Heller, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book VG+: writing on FFEP, else clean, square, tight, unmarked
- Jacket Condition
- DJ VG: spine mildly sunned, age toning, not clipped
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0394465687
- ISBN 13
- 9780394465685
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- fiction, literature
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Matthew's Books LLC
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