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Office Politics

by Wilfrid Sheed (1966)

About this book

The novel's setting is the slightly worn-at-the-heels office of The Outsider, an influential journal of opinion with a small but dwindling circulation. The magazine and its staff have been dominated by the personality of editor-in-chief Gilbert Twining ever since that unorthodox "genius" of British journalism was imported a decade ago. But when a sudden illness sends Twining into enforced retirement, the underground struggle among his editors to supplant him surfaces

Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraLate 20th Century
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters

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