PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES: Portraits from Organization Life.
by Hazzard, Shirley (1931-2016)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket (corners slightly bumped, 'H' on front endpaper, light overall edgewear to dj)/very good
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1967.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (corners slightly bumped, 'H' on front endpaper, light overall edgewear to dj). First printing. The third book, a collection of eight short stories, by this Australian-American writer, one which is "a masterpiece of observation which clearly demonstrates the authors perceptive wit. Set in the 1950s, amidst the corridors and offices of the newly-created monolithic and meandering bureaucracy of 'the Organization' (read the United Nations, where Hazzard worked for 10 years) an American-based concern intent on inflicting improvement the world over, readers are introduced to an immalleable world hemmed in by regulations, memoranda and mediocrity. A place where once vibrant personalities are smothered and strangulated by red tape, and the general life-sapping realities of paper-pushing and the exacting demands of pointless tasks reign paramount." 179 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83919
- Title
- PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES: Portraits from Organization Life.
- Author
- Hazzard, Shirley (1931-2016)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket (corners slightly bumped, 'H' on front endpaper, light overall edgewear to dj)
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1967.
- Keywords
- united nations,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short story collections;
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