Would you like to see this page in English? Click here.

5 neufs & d'occasion à partir de CDN$ 37.17
Voir toutes les options d'achat
Vous en avez un à vendre?
Vendez les vôtres ici
 
 
Vintage Stuff
  
Editeur: découvrez commment les clients peuvent feuilleter et chercher au coeur de ce livre.

Vintage Stuff [Large Print] (Hardcover)

de Tom Sharpe (Author)
3.0étoiles sur 5  Voir tous les commentaires (2 évaluations de client)

Offert par ces vendeurs.


2 neufs à partir de CDN$ 59.45 3 d'occasion à partir de CDN$ 37.17

Les détails du produit

Descriptions du produit

From AudioFile

Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown, a bumbling British public schoolboy, has a penchant for taking the most innocent commands literally. His adventures whisk him to a French castle, where he commits murder and mayhem. British humor is rarely captured as effectively as this. Fry accomplishes an incredible range of accents and distinctions of age, occupation and sex. If hearing an imitation of a man with a missing lower denture tickles you, then Vintage Stuff is right up your alley. E.E.L. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --Ce texte provient de la Audio Cassette édition.


From the Back Cover

“When Tom Sharpe turns his attention to a very minor public school…the result is predictably savage. Hoaxes, chases, car crashes, shootings, and general mayhem. Wicked, riotous humour.”
—Daily Telegraph

“Excellently funny.”
—Auberon Waugh, Daily Mail

--Ce texte provient de la Paperback édition.

Associer des mots-clés à ce produit

 (De quoi s'agit-il ?)
Considérez votre mot-clé comme une sorte d'étiquette définissant parfaitement ce produit.
Les mots-clés aident les clients à organiser et trouver leurs articles favoris.
Vos mots-clés : Ajouter votre premier mot-clé
 
Voir les mots-clés les plus populaires
 

L'avis des consommateurs

2 évaluations
5 étoiles:
 (1)
4 étoiles:    (0)
3 étoiles:    (0)
2 étoiles:    (0)
1 étoiles:
 (1)
 
 
 
 
 
Évaluation du client type
3.0étoiles sur 5 (2 évaluations de client)
 
 
 
 
Partagez votre opinion avec les autres clients:
Commentaires client les plus utiles

 
1.0étoiles sur 5 Below par slapstick. Pointless., Jui 10 2002
Par O. Buxton "Olly Buxton" (Highgate, UK) - Voir tous mes commentaires
(REAL NAME)   
This review is from: Vintage Stuff (Paperback)
I hadn't read a Tom Sharpe book in maybe ten years, but what I remember were absurd but still gruesomely funny, bawdy adventures in the world of slapstick (the episode in The Throwback with the prophylactic, the oven cleaner and the cheese grater remains one of the funniest things I've ever read).

Well, I stumbled upon Vintage Stuff in an charity shop the other day and thought I'd give it a go for old times' sake.

I wish I hadn't bothered. Tom Sharpe's literary star has waned of late (having reached its zenith in the early Eighties), and reading this book it isn't hard to see why.

The thing about slapstick - and Sharpe should know this, as he's a (past) master at it - is to exaggerate and caricature; extrapolate and inflate, but never so as to totally break the bounds of credibility. There need to be scenes and situations which any of us might find ourselves in, and only the unusual confluence of all of them at once suggests this could never really happen in real life.

In Vintage Stuff, this simply isn't the case. Even the premise is ridiculous, and the decisions, behaviour and reactions of all the characters are plainly silly, without ever hinting at being funny. Sharpe's writing style, usually so light, is leaden; the dialogue isn't credible and the denouement is both unpleasant and anticlimactic. You may spy also a rather spiteful, laboured, resentment of the public school system.

This has all the hallmarks of an empty barrel being scraped. Avoid.

Ce commentaire vous a-t-il été utile ? Oui Non (Signaler ce commentaire)



 
5.0étoiles sur 5 Excellent example of the author's work, Sep 29 1998
This review is from: Vintage Stuff (Paperback)
I have read all of Tom Sharpe's books and Vintage Stuff is one of his best. The comic style in which he normally handles language, plot and characters is probably at its best in this book. The book lends heavily on the English public school system (as do some of his other books). The plot concerns the adventures of a school master and one of his students as they are induced on a crazy journey through England and France - all due to the schemes of another school master seeking revenge. Like all Sharpe's books, the journey is the reward as most endings tend to be a little anti-climactic. This is mainly due to the fast pace of the work, both in plot and language. If you like a well-written comic adventure, you can't go wrong with this book.
Ce commentaire vous a-t-il été utile ? Oui Non (Signaler ce commentaire)


Partagez votre opinion avec les autres clients: Créer votre propre commentaire
 
 
Rechercher uniquement sur les commentaires portant sur ce produit


Cherchez des articles semblables par catégorie

Chercher des articles semblables par sujet






c.-à-d., chaque book doit correspondre au sujet 1 ET au sujet 2 ET ...

Commentaires

Souhaitez-vous compléter ou améliorer les informations sur ce produit ? Ou faire modifier les images?

Votre historique récent

 (En savoir plus)

Après avoir visualisé des pages détaillées produit ou des résultats de recherche, regardez ici pour trouver une façon simple de poursuivre votre navigation sur des pages qui vous intéressent.