Tom Sharpe

Broschiertes Buch

Porterhouse Blue

Beschreibung

Never before published in America, and now a six-hour PBS presentation, Porterhouse Blue is the story of one college campus with more problems than students. A revolution at Porterhouse College sends a lot of things out in the open--namely one gross of condoms.

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Atlantic
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 139mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9780871132796
• ISBN-10: 0871132796
• Artikelnr.: 22225663

Rezensionen

Terrific. It is light years since I read anything so original ... (the) character drawing is wonderful ... a very good book P.G. Wodehouse