My rating:
add to my books
Loading...
A Spy on the Bus
Memoir of a Company Rat
An adventuresome eighteen-year-old college grad with fresh eyes hires on with the Greyhound Bus line in 1946 and becomes a company spy. The match is perfect as Margean Worst leaves the farm for a life on the road, inspecting bus drivers on the routes, first in the Great Lakes region and then all over the country. Margean poses as a pass...more
An adventuresome eighteen-year-old college grad with fresh eyes hires on with the Greyhound Bus line in 1946 and becomes a company spy. The match is perfect as Margean Worst leaves the farm for a life on the road, inspecting bus drivers on the routes, first in the Great Lakes region and then all over the country. Margean poses as a pass...more
Paperback, 272 pages
Published
April 17th 2008
by Arbutus Press
(first published 2008)
There is a good chance some of your friends read this book. Sign in to see!
sign in »
Friend Reviews
To see what your friends thought of this book,
please sign up.
This book is currently not featured on any Listopia lists.
Add this book to your favorite list »
Community Reviews
(showing
1-10
of
10)
John
rated it
·
review of another edition
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
lovers of unusual but ordinary American lives.
I came across this book in the special advertising pages in The New York Review of Books for independent press publications, and wrangled a swap with the publisher for one of my own books. It probably wasn't worth it, because I never did finish this book. I gave it three stars anyway because it is, in its peculiar way, and, almost despite itself, occasionally very interesting. Margean Gladysz worked as a company spy on various bus lines back in the 1940s. In those days, passengers could flag the...more
This was a fun book for me, but not all of my fellow book club readers enjoyed it. I found it fascinating to see what would happen next in Margean's letters home. It is an autobiography of sorts. It's the letters home (only home, no replies) of a young woman who rode buses as an undercover inspector in the late 1940's. Because it is only her letters home, which her parents saved and she found 50 years later, it can be hard to read. Personally, I was so fascinated by the concept, her young age, a...more
After just one year of college, the author took a job as an internal investigator for the Greyhound Bus Company and at age 18, traveled the United States in that capacity during the years 1947-48. It's an enlightening look at the morals and mores of an under-reported era - a time when a steak dinner costs $2.00 and cash was the only medium of exchange.
The author's mother saved all her letters home, which became the foundation upon which this book was constructed. Newsman Jim Lehrer...more
The author's mother saved all her letters home, which became the foundation upon which this book was constructed. Newsman Jim Lehrer...more
Michele
marked it as to-read
Katie
marked it as to-read
There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one »
