People In Glass Houses - Shirley Hazzard - diskuze

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.
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