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When Miss Hazelstone of Jacaranda Park kills her Zulu cook in a sensational crime passionel, the gallant members of the South African police force are soon on the scene: Kommandant van Heerden, whose secret longing for the heart of an English gentleman leads to the most memorable transplant operation yet recorded; Luitenant Verkramp of the Security Branch, ever active in the pursuit of Communist cells; Konstabel Els, with his propensity for shooting first and not thinking later - and also for forcing himself upon African women in a manner legally reserved for male members of their own race.
In the course of the strange events which follow, we encounter some very esoteric perversions when the Kommandant is held captive in Miss Hazelstone's remarkable rubber room; and some even more amazing perversions of justice when Miss Hazelstone's brother, the Bishop of Barotseland, is sentenced to be hanged on the ancient gallows in the local prison.
Not a 'political' novel in any previously imagined sense, Riotous Assembly provided a completely fresh approach to the South African scene - an approach startling in its deadpan savagery and yet also outrageously funny.
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 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.
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Riotous Assembly
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Viking, 1972
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Riotous Assembly: a Novel
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Cloth. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Very Good. 1st US. (1st US) Slightly smaller, sturdy book, fine red cloth, orange and dark red lettering on spine, dark gray inside covers and adjacent end papers, 249 pages. DJ has creases inside flaps, glossy orange with illustration of woman in chair at top front left, spine very slightly faded, praise on back from Piers Brendon, Norman Shrapnel and Auberon Waugh in British publications. DJ has microtear at top front edge near tip, tiny nick at bottom front edge nearer tip, micronicks along spine top edge, very tiny tear at spine bottom right edge, micronick at top back edge, three very tiny light dents at bottom back spine indentation, tiny crease at bottom back edge. DJ beneath mylar. Near Very Good DJ/Very Fine book. N° de réf. du vendeur 38633
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Riotous Assembly
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