Riotous Assembly

Informationen zum Autor 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 XXIIIème 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. Klappentext Not a "political" novel in any previously imagined sense, Riotous Assembly provides a completely fresh approach to the South African scene - an approach at once startling in its deadpan savagery, and outrageously funny. Zusammenfassung When Miss Hazelstone of Jacaranda Park kills her Zulu cook in a sensational crime passionel, the gallant members of the South African police force are soon on the scene: Kommandant van Heerden, whose secret longing for the heart of an English gentleman leads to the most memorable transplant operation yet recorded;

Product details

• Authors: Tom Sharpe
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.2002
• EAN: 9780099435457
• ISBN: 978-0-09-943545-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Crime & mystery, FICTION / Satire, HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, Republic of South Africa, Crime and mystery fiction, Satirical fiction and parodies, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary