Tom Sharpe

Porterhouse Blue

Sprecher: Jones, Griff Rhys

• MP3-CD

Produktbeschreibung

To Porterhouse College, Cambridge, famous for rowing, low academic standards. and a proud cuisine, comes a Master, an ex-grammar-school boy, demanding Firsts, women students, a self-service canteen, and a slot-machine for contraceptives. There is considerable opposition to this challenge to the established order, in the form of Skullion, the intransigent porter at Porterhouse, who is determined that the hallowed traditions of the College will never change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brilliance Audio
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 480 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781531871550
• Artikelnr.: 45576990

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

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