Office Politics

by Wilfrid Sheed

Book Overview

"A masterpiece . . . One of the few genuinely comic novels since Lucky Jim." --Elaine Dundy

Ever 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1961341182
• ISBN13: 9781961341180
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: McNally Editions
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A Different Time and Perspective.

An interesting look at the pace of a 60's office workplace (slower) and a look at one particular British transplant's insights on the American mentality. This is a well written story; believable characters and plot. Humorous and accurate.

A small gem but impeccable

Jonathan Yardley wrote an appreciation of "Office Politics" in the Washington Post (June 20, 2005: [...]) that perfectly introduces this book. Yardley says that "Office Politics" is "the best of Sheed's novels and one that remains uncommonly fresh after all these years." And he says Sheed was not just a successful and appreciated novelist, first-rate essayist and prominent literary critic but in fact the country's best critic. I rank Sheed as among the most gifted writers of our times. His novels brim with perfect character encapsulizations and quotable lines; no one then or now matches him at his ability to write fiction, serious non-fiction and magazine journalism.