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.

菲利帕·格里高利是一位全职作者及电台、电视台主持人，拥有爱丁堡大学十八世纪文学研究博士学位，尤其偏爱创作以都铎王朝及16世纪英国为背景的小说，被称作“历史小说女王”。作品《另一个波琳家的女孩》发行全球26个国家，仅在英国就发行量破百万。后被好莱坞搬上银幕。《玫瑰战争》系列也将由BBC改编为电视剧，预计在2013年8月上映。菲利帕·格里高利的历史小说系列仍在不断更新中，每有新作面世便长期占据美英各大畅销书榜单前位，受到读者广泛好评。

After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke and his trusted sidekick, Jean, fled the island city of their birth and landed on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar to nurse their wounds. But even at this westernmost edge of civilization, they can't rest for long — and are soon back to what they do best: stealing from the undeserving rich and pocketing th...(展开全部)

In his highly acclaimed debut, The Lies of Locke Lamora , Scott Lynch took us on an adrenaline-fueled adventure with a band of daring thieves led by con artist extraordinaire Locke Lamora. Now Lynch brings back his outrageous hero for a caper so death-defying, nothing short of a miracle will pull it off. After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him,...(展开全部)

In his highly acclaimed debut, The Lies of Locke Lamora , Scott Lynch took us on an adrenaline-fueled adventure with a band of daring thieves led by con artist extraordinaire Locke Lamora. Now Lynch brings back his outrageous hero for a caper so death-defying, nothing short of a miracle will pull it off. After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him,...(展开全部)

After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke and his trusted sidekick, Jean, fled the island city of their birth and landed on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar to nurse their wounds. But even at this westernmost edge of civilization, they can't rest for long — and are soon back to what they do best: stealing from the undeserving rich and pocketing th...(展开全部)

Synopsis It was 1956 and he was in Port Said. About these two facts he was reasonably certain but a murderous attack left him certain about little else – maybe just the conviction that the British usually did the right thing and that to be a crook a man must assume the society he lived in was honest.