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The Great Pursuit (Paperback)

by Tom Sharpe (Author)
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The gullible author of a totally filthy novel, sure to make a shameful pile of money in America, is dispatched across the Atlantic for a chaotic publicity tour.


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 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, when he was deported... From 1963 to 1972 he was a lecturer in History at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. In 1986 he was awarded the XXXIIIeme Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir Xavier Forneret. He is married and lives in Cambridge.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sharpeomaniac, Oct 27 2000
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This review is from: Great Pursuit (Paperback)
All I have to say is that while reading a Tom Sharpe book in the subway you'll probably end up missing your stop. Accidentally because you are so engrossed, or purposely because you don't want to put the book down. Watch out, you might end up in an area you don't want to visit!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Just as good as his other books, Jun 19 2000
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This review is from: Great Pursuit (Paperback)
This was the first Tom Sharpe's book I read. It was so funny! I loved it so much - I had to buy his other books. This one is definitely one of my favorites.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Restrained, for sharpe, Aug 11 1999
By ensiform (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews
The story of a publisher, Frensic, who convinces an unimaginative would-be author, Peter Piper, to pretend authorship of a wildly successful, pornographic novel. It's a funny book, though not riotously so: more witty and arch, or getting its humor by deflating stereotypes. Its plot is devious and twisted, but though there's sex and a riot and some explosions, it seems restrained compared to other Sharpe books. I must say I don't care much for the abrupt, highly unsatisfying ending. Start reading Sharpe with Wilt or Blott.
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