Overview
From the author of the award-winning The Great Fire, an extraordinary collection of stories about life in the Organisation - a polyglot crucible in which talent rots and mediocrity thrives and the 'rights of man' are unthinkingly sacrificed on the altar of inter-departmental strife.
The ''People in Glass Houses'' work for an American-based concern devoted to ''inflicting improvement'' the world over.
Amongst them are sloppy but erudite Algie Wyatt, Swoboda, a Slav DP, who finally rebels against a daily inflow of documentation; modest Ashmole-Brown, whose surprise best-seller unseats Sadie Graine, the all-time corridor fixer; Jaspersen, who falls in and out of love with the Organization; and Clelia Kinslake, who meets the most critical non-crisis of her career in Crete.
Shirley Hazzard''s eight dazzling stories are linked by a scorching contempt for the Organization.
- | Author: Shirley Hazzard
- | Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- | Publication Date: Mar 02, 2006
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781844082186
- | ISBN-10: 1844082180