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Indecent Exposure
Tom Sharpe
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Description for Indecent Exposure
paperback. Once again the setting d Piemburgem, the deceptively peaceful-looking capital of Zululand, where Kommondant van Heerden, Konstabel Els and Luitenant Vekramp continue to terrorise true Englishman and even truer Zulus in their relentless search for a perfect South Africa. This book presents their story. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250.
In Piemburgem, the deceptively peaceful-looking capital of Zululand, Kommandant van Heerden, Konstabel Els and Luitenant Verkramp continue to terrorise true Englishman and even truer Zulus in their relentless search for a perfect South Africa.
Kommandant van Heerden, that great Anglophile, gropes his way towards attaining true 'Englishness' in the company of the eccentric Dornford Yates Club. But Luitenant Verkramp, whose hatred of all things English is surpassed only by his fear of sex, sets in motion an experiment in mass chastity (with the help of a lady psychiatrist), which has remarkable and quite unforeseen results.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Arrow Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099466529
SKU
9780099466529
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Ref
99-1
About 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Indecent Exposure
Explosively funny, fiendishly inventive
Sunday Times
Splendidly funny
New Statesman
What clinches the novel's success is Mr Sharpe's brilliant comic style. His phrasing, his timing, and his extraordinarily deft handling of the minutiae of comic incidents make for real hilarity
Times Literary Supplement
Britain's leading practitioner of black humour
Punch
Sunday Times
Splendidly funny
New Statesman
What clinches the novel's success is Mr Sharpe's brilliant comic style. His phrasing, his timing, and his extraordinarily deft handling of the minutiae of comic incidents make for real hilarity
Times Literary Supplement
Britain's leading practitioner of black humour
Punch