Something Happened

Something Happened
First edition
AuthorJoseph Heller
Cover artistPaul Bacon[1]
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
Publication date
September 1974
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN0-394-46568-7
OCLC902893
813/.5/4
LC ClassPZ4.H47665 So PS3558.E476

Something Happened is Joseph Heller's second novel (published in 1974, thirteen years after Catch-22). Its main character and narrator is Bob Slocum, a businessman who engages in a stream of consciousness narrative about his job, his family, his childhood, his sexual escapades, and his own psyche. Although Something Happened failed to achieve the level of renown that Catch-22 did, it has since developed a cult following, with some considering it one of Heller's finest works.