$25.30
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2004
Summary
A hilarious dose of British farce from Tom Sharpe, the bestselling author of Wilt and Porterhouse Blue.
In Piemburgem, the deceptively peaceful-looking capital of Zululand, Kommandant van Heerden, Konstabel Els and Luitenant Verkramp continue to terrorise true Englishmen and even truer Zulus in their relentless search for a perfect South Africa.
Kommandant van Heerden, that great Anglophile, gropes his way towards attaining true ‘Englishness’ in the company of the eccentric Do…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099466529 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009946652X |
| Author: | Tom Sharpe |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2004 |
| Weight: | 245g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 128mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
Britain’s leading practitioner of black humour
Explosively funny, fiendishly inventive * Sunday Times *
Splendidly funny * New Statesman *
What clinches the novel’s success is Mr Sharpe’s brilliant comic style. His phrasing, his timing, and his extraordinarily deft handling of the minutiae of comic incidents make for real hilarity * Times Literary Supplement *
Britain’s leading practitioner of black humour * Punch *
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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