Bob Slocum is a promising executive and society demands that he should be happy. But his wife is a drunken flirt and his daughter wages her own cunning campaign against him. Slocum's soliloquy moves to a shocking climax as fate hands him a tragic focus for his despair.

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 controve...(展开全部)

FROM THE AUTHOR OF CATCH-22, SOON TO BE A TV SERIES ON CHANNEL 4 Joseph Heller's other masterpiece - a darkly comic, sometimes tragic satire that does for the American Dream what Catch-22 did for the madness of war 'Joseph Heller's finest achievement' Jonathan Coe Bob Slocum was a promising executive. He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, and as many mistress...(展开全部)

A modern adaptation of this favorite Jewish folktale describes how the blanket grandfather had made for young Joseph is transformed ove r the years into a jacket, a button, and, ultimately, a story.

面對過於積極求勝的清春，隊長及部分隊友不堪負荷，於是開始串聯，決定解散老虎隊，不知情的清春在遭逢如此大的打擊之後，卻意外收到日本殘障籃球聯盟的來信，通知清春被選為日本代表隊的候補選手…

简介：本书多为作者认知世界的真实，分暗黑和微心灵鸡汤哲学两种，会在开头标明。嗯……一部分是摘自动漫或小说的金典句，会标明出处。不定期更新。

參加閃電隊選秀會的野宮，進入了最終10名決選名單；高橋第一次坐上殘障籃球專用的競技輪椅，內心開始沸騰；老虎隊來了一個新夥伴，清春等人在球場上是否又會激出新的火花？

車禍意外而導致半身不遂的高橋，開始進入下一個漫長而艱辛的復健療程，與父親的溝通橋樑也再度重建。而野宮在經歷公司倒閉之後，終於找到了新的人生目標…

戶川進行年度健檢，得知癌細胞沒有復發；野宮冒名頂替TU大選手下場比賽，還大鬧母校畢業典禮；高橋正視自己不再逃避，再度接觸籃球……

高橋復健情形良好，母親希望高橋回西高繼續完成學業。野宮終於考取駕照，再度前往長野探視夏美，甚至私下帶著夏美外出兜風。過去曾與清春及野宮賭過球的長野滿，突然現身老虎隊，並提出加入球隊的請求…