Product Description

This title involves left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29040 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
'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 on funnier' Observer

Daily Telegraph
‘An immense gift for social satire… the action is unflagging’

Observer
‘There’s almost no on funnier’

Customer Reviews

worth ten stars
he did tail off in his later books,but this for me is the high point.no clues to the plot,just get it and enjoy.dont read it with young kids about,first they will think your gone mad with all the laughter,second are you really going to tell them about the porg that came out of the oven?good clean dirty fun.a masterpiece

Tom Sharpe - A Genius
One of the very few authors with the talent to make you laugh out loud, book after book. I guarantee that once you have read one of his novels, you will be frantically searching for everything else he has ever written. His South African based novels are very humourous but for me, it is his take on the English Eccentric that never fails to raise a laugh. His books Vintage Stuff and Ancestral Vices are particular favourites.

Top DRAWER
The king of satire.

There is no funnier writer today.

Please tell me if there is as I have read all his collection

A joy.