An Accidental American: a Novel
“Barely fifty, he hadn’t thought of himself as old, though his father hadn’t been much older when he’d left the smelter, and Valsamis had regarded him as ancient at the time. But things had been different then. That kind of work and the weight of so many children took their toll on a person’s body.
In the end, it hadn’t been Valsamis’s choice to make. In his last eight years at the Agency, the world had easily outpaced him, along with so many others who’d done their jobs just a little too we...ll. Men and women like Valsamis who, through a combination of their own efficiency and blind luck, had been rendered obsolete.
As much as he didn’t want to leave, Valsamis was a man who knew how to make a graceful exit, and he was gracious in defeat. He had smiled placidly through the retirement party Morrow presided over for him in Near East, careful not to drink himself into a bitter nostalgia, as he’d seen too many of his colleagues do.MoreLess
In the end, it hadn’t been Valsamis’s choice to make. In his last eight years at the Agency, the world had easily outpaced him, along with so many others who’d done their jobs just a little too we...ll. Men and women like Valsamis who, through a combination of their own efficiency and blind luck, had been rendered obsolete.
As much as he didn’t want to leave, Valsamis was a man who knew how to make a graceful exit, and he was gracious in defeat. He had smiled placidly through the retirement party Morrow presided over for him in Near East, careful not to drink himself into a bitter nostalgia, as he’d seen too many of his colleagues do.MoreLess
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