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Title: PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES
By: Shirley Hazzard
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 1844082180
ISBN 13: 9781844082186
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Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP
Pub. date: 2 March, 2006
Pages: 192
Description: 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.
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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