Grantchester Grind
(Porterhouse Blue Series 2)
$36.04
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2004
Summary
This sequel to Tom Sharpe’s classic comic novel Porterhouse Blue takes the reader back to the hilarious goings-on at Porterhouse College.
Though as cunning as ever, the formidable Skullion - previously head porter, now elevated to Master - is showing signs of physical frailty after his stroke. So the tricky business of appointing a new Master must start all over again. Meanwhile the College’s monstrous debts refuse to go away, and a sinister American media mogul seems determined to ma…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099466543 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099466546 |
| Author: | Tom Sharpe |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2004 |
| Weight: | 332g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Porterhouse Blue |
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Critics Review
The best of British farce-masters is back
Has all the ingredients of a classic Sharpe novel - grotesque characters, outlandish plot, scabrous dialogue * The Times *
Dynamic, fertile, knockabout energy * Evening Standard *
The best of British farce-masters is back * Mail on Sunday *
A novelist who has broken out of the pack, established a wholly distinctive style … such a keen eye for the ridiculous and a marvellous ability to puncture it * Scotsman *
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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