Ancestral Vices
$25.70
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2003
Summary
A hilarious dose of British farce from Tom Sharpe, the bestselling author of Wilt and Porterhouse Blue.
With his only friend a computer, Walden Yapp has lived a singular life. Professor of Demotic History at the University of Kloone, Yapp spends his days highlighting the corrupt capitalistic nature of the upper-classes, and his nights feeding Doris his computer the information he has gathered.
So when capitalist Lord Petrefact hires him to write a damaging family history, Yapp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099435532 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099435535 |
| Author: | Tom Sharpe |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2003 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 132mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Arrow Books |
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Critics Review
They make me cry with laughter … I think he’s one of the great geniuses * Daily Mail *
Tom Sharpe is in top form … outrageously funny … Left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyers - all take custard pies full in the face in this boisterous knockabout farce * The Listener *
A novelist who has broken out of the pack, established a wholly distinctive style … such a keen eye for the ridiculous and marvellous ability to puncture it * Scotsman *
An immense gift for social satire … the action is unflagging * Daily Telegraph *
There’s almost no one funnier * Observer *
Tom Sharpe
Tom Sharpe was born in 1928 and educated at Lancing College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He did his national service in the Marines before moving to South Africa in 1951, where he did social work before teaching in Natal. He had a photographic studio in Pietermaritzburg from 1957 until 1961, and from 1963 to 1972 he was a lecturer in History at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. He is the author of sixteen bestselling novels, including Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape, which were serialised on television, and Wilt, which was made into a film. In 1986 he was awarded the XXIII me Grand Prix de l’Humour Noir Xavier Forneret, and in 2010 he was awarded the inaugural BBK La Risa de Bilbao Prize. Tom Sharpe died in June 2013 at his home in northern Spain.
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