Blott On The Landscape
$38.51
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2003
Summary
A hilarious dose of British farce from Tom Sharpe, the bestselling author of Wilt and Porterhouse Blue.
The landscape is flawless, the trees majestic, the flora and the fauna are right and proper. All is picturesquely typical of rural England at its best. Sir Giles, an MP of few principles and curious tastes, plots to destroy all this by building a motorway smack through it, to line his own pocket and at the same time to dispose of his wife, the capacious Lady Maude.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099435471 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099435470 |
| Author: | Tom Sharpe |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2003 |
| Weight: | 252g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 130mm x 199mm |
| Series: | Arrow Books |
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Critics Review
Confirms that he had inherited the mantle of the late P.G. Wodehouse. This is deliciously English comedy
Confirms that he had inherited the mantle of the late P.G. Wodehouse. This is deliciously English comedy * Guardian *
Extremely funny … Mr Sharpe’s dialogues is nifty, imaginative, enjoyable – Peter Ackroyd * The Spectator *
I laughed out loud, I really did … Tom Sharpe is nowhere more buoyant than when mounting catastrophic scenes of hilarious mayhem * The Statesman *
A very funny writer indeed … Tom Sharpe’s comedy lies as much in his language and the pace of the dialogue as in the outrageous muddles and confusions of his comic situations * The Times *
This exuberant novel will cheer all those who dislike bureaucracy * Daily Telegraph *
Farcical in the best sense: Blott on the Landscape is as tense and compelling as any good detective novel * The Times *
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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