Volume 21, Number 16 · October 17, 1974

Caught Again

By John Thompson
Something Happened
by Joseph Heller

Knopf, 569 pp., $10.00

In Something Happened, Joseph Heller's new novel, the story is told by the hero as if he were dictating secretly to some device implanted in his brain. We overhear everything while he reports what is going on at the office and at home from day to day, and reports too the fantasies and memories that haunt him and drive him and that give us eventually what he says is the story of his life.



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