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A Terrific Marriage of Kafka and Waugh,
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This review is from: People in Glass Houses: A Novel (Paperback)
Anyone who has worked with the United Nations will recognize "the Organization" immediately. Ms. Hazzard worked there for ten years back in the 50s and it doesn't seem to have changed at all. But this book is more than a satire of the UN, it is a commentary on bureaucracy in general and great fun to read. Some of the humor is broad (a meeting attended by someone from the Section on Forceful Implementation of Peace Treaties and someone from the Section on Peaceful Uses for Atomic Weapons) but most of it is in that subtle area of humor which is almost indistinguishable from tragedy. This should be mandatory reading for anyone involved in any form of government or humanitarian work.
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People in Glass Houses by Shirley Hazzard (Mass Market Paperback - December 1, 1988)
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