Office Politics

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.

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.