The Midden - Couverture souple

Sharpe, Tom

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 033034742X ISBN 13 : 9780330347426

Editeur : Pan Books, 1997

Synopsis

Timothy Bright's arrogant grasping stupidity begins to lose its edge after the Lloyd's of London crisis. Rapidly becoming a social pariah, he escapes from it all to gloriously and nakedly enter the county of Twixt and Tween, and the eccentric sphere of the Midden family.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Timothy Brights doesn't exactly live up to his name. Brought up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he can't understand why the funds have been cut off, nor why friends he recruited as Lloyds' Names no longer want to talk to him.

When gambling fails, Timothy turns to embezzlement, but it's the lesser offence of helping himself to some strangely aromatic tobacco that propels him up the motorway and into bed with the Chief Constable's wife. The Chief Constable has just survived charges of bribery and perjury and is not too concerned that his efforts to dispose of Timothy involve false imprisonment, breaking and entering, and a spot of GBH. It is only when the Chief tries to frame his old adversary, the upright Miss Midden, that things begin to go seriously wrong as his underhand ploy opens up the way to spectacular mayhem.

Biographie de l'auteur

Tom Sharpe was born in 1928 and educated at Lancing College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He did his national service in the Marines before going 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 received the inaugural BBK La Risa de Bilbao Prize. Tom Sharpe died in June 2013 at his home in northern Spain.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pan Books
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 033034742X
• ISBN 13: 9780330347426
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 343
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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