Sheed, Wilfrid (Vol. 2) - Sheed, Wilfrid 1930–
Sheed, Wilfrid 1930–
A British-born American novelist and an erudite and witty critic, Sheed is the author of Office Politics, Max Jamison, and People Will Always Be Kind.
Wilfrid Sheed's Office Politics resembles more recent novels like Bellow's The Victim (without the anti-Semitism) and Malamud's The New Life (without academia). Another study in modern ennui, it examines the fight for editorial power in the office of a small liberal political magazine, one (we might suppose) like The New Republic, The Nation, or Commonweal…. Office Politics uses the drab world of New York City to intensify the drab, sordid, meaningless routine that turns young men into cynics and romantic expectation into despair.
Sheed's problem is, of course, the problem of most other novelists today—the problem of making unheroic characters heroes, of making the drab and everyday exciting, of making the petty...
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