People In Glass Houses
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First Australian edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight.
A sharp and satirical work of literary fiction, People in Glass Houses chronicles the absurdities of life within a vast, nameless international organization — a thinly veiled portrait of the United Nations, where Hazzard herself once worked. Through a series of interconnected vignettes, the narrative presents a cast of bureaucrats, idealists, and careerists whose humanity is steadily eroded by institutional conformity and procedural inertia. Hazzard's prose is precise and quietly devastating, wielding irony with surgical wit to illustrate how grand humanitarian ambitions can be hollowed out by the mundane machinery of organizational life. Each story stands on its own while contributing to a cumulative portrait of a world in which language is weaponized to obscure rather than communicate, and individual conscience is the first casualty of collective mediocrity. Published in 1967, this celebrated work remains a timeless and incisive critique of bureaucracy, idealism, and the quiet compromises that define modern institutional existence.
Author: Shirley Hazzard
Format: Hardback
Published: 1967, Macmillan of Australia
Edition: First Australian edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight.
A sharp and satirical work of literary fiction, People in Glass Houses chronicles the absurdities of life within a vast, nameless international organization — a thinly veiled portrait of the United Nations, where Hazzard herself once worked. Through a series of interconnected vignettes, the narrative presents a cast of bureaucrats, idealists, and careerists whose humanity is steadily eroded by institutional conformity and procedural inertia. Hazzard's prose is precise and quietly devastating, wielding irony with surgical wit to illustrate how grand humanitarian ambitions can be hollowed out by the mundane machinery of organizational life. Each story stands on its own while contributing to a cumulative portrait of a world in which language is weaponized to obscure rather than communicate, and individual conscience is the first casualty of collective mediocrity. Published in 1967, this celebrated work remains a timeless and incisive critique of bureaucracy, idealism, and the quiet compromises that define modern institutional existence.