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>63. Joseph Heller, Something Happened
Nope.
(certainly this is Helleresque, at least)
I agree, the general setup (cynical selfish first-person narrator with a certain ironic detatchment) is just like Something Happened. But I wouldn't say the style is like it.

>65. Richard Vollmann.
Nope. No easy handholds on this one, I admit. Just a matter of having read it recently perhaps.

>80. R. A. Lafferty..
Also nope. R A Lafferty does have a strong undercurrent of cruelty, so not a million miles away from this. But he's also relentlessly wacky and weird. (He's very much science fiction, which this isn't.)