Office Politics (McNally Editions)
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- Synopsis
- &“A masterpiece . . . One of the few genuinely comic novels since Lucky Jim.&” —Elaine DundyEver since college, George Wren has dreamed of working at The Outsider, the prestigious weekly edited by his hero, the suave English expat Gilbert Twining. So when George sees a listing for a junior editor, he trades in his job at CBS for half the salary—and a ringside seat in the unexpectedly cutthroat arena of a small-circulation, highbrow little magazine. To George&’s surprise and dismay, The Outsider is seething with malcontents and mutineers, at least according to Twining, who keeps cornering George for after-work martinis, pouring out his anxieties, professional and otherwise, while George&’s wife, Matilda, and baby son wait for him back in Queens. Is Twining paranoid? Is he insane? Or are George&’s new office-mates truly plotting an insurrection? And if so, what&’s all of it got to do with George? An indelible satire of 1960s intellectual New York, Office Politics is also a celebration of that endangered species, the office, at its pettiest and most idealistic, as the proving ground where so much of grownup life takes place.
- Copyright:
- 1966
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 352 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781946022721
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781961341180
- Publisher:
- McNally Editions
- Date of Addition:
- 09/10/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Wilfrid Sheed
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Humor
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Foreword by:
- Gerald Howard