Ancestral Vices - Hardcover

Sharpe, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0436458098 ISBN 13: 9780436458095

Publisher: Wm Collins & Sons & Co, 1980

Synopsis

Ancestral Vices

About this title

About the Author:

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 XXIIIeme Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir Xavier Forneret, and in 2010 he was awarded the inaugural BBK La Risa de Bilbao Prize. He is married and divides his time between Cambridge, England, and northern Spain.

Review:

“Tom Sharpe is in top form... outrageously funny. Left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyers – all take custard pies in the face in this boisterous knockabout farce.”
—Listener

About this edition

• Publisher: Wm Collins & Sons & Co
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0436458098
• ISBN 13: 9780436458095
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230