By Tom Sharpe
Book Details:
ISBN: 0871132796
EAN: 9780871132796
ASIN: 0871132796
Publisher: Atlantic per month Press
Publication Date: 1989-02
Number of Pages: 219
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Synopsis from Amazon:
Never ahead of released in the USA, and now a six-hour PBS presentation, Porterhouse Blue is the tale of 1 collage campus with extra difficulties than scholars. A revolution at Porterhouse university sends loads of issues out within the open--namely one gross of condoms.
GoodReads writer Information:
Author Name: Tom Sharpe (Born: 1928/03/30 / Died: 2013/06/06)
Author Description: Tom Sharpe used to be an English satirical writer, born in London and trained at Lancing collage and at Pembroke university, Cambridge. After nationwide carrier with the Royal Marines he moved to South Africa in 1951, doing social paintings and instructing in Natal, until eventually deported in 1961.
His paintings in South Africa encouraged the novels Riotous meeting and Indecent publicity. From 1963 until eventually 1972 he used to be a background lecturer on the Cambridge collage of Arts and know-how, which impressed his "Wilt" sequence Wilt, The Wilt replacement, Wilt on excessive and Wilt in Nowhere.
His novels characteristic sour and outrageous satire of the apartheid regime (Riotous meeting and its sequel Indecent Exposure), "dumbed-" or watered-down schooling (the Wilt series), English category snobbery (Ancestral Vices, Porterhouse Blue, Grantchester Grind), the literary international (The nice Pursuit), political extremists of all stripes, political correctness, forms and stupidity usually. Characters might bask in extraordinary sexual practices, and coarser characters use very image and/or profane language in discussion. Sharpe frequently parodies the language and elegance of particular authors normally linked to the social team held up for ridicule. Sharpe's bestselling books were translated into many languages.
Author URL: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/33017
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The piano is the result of a momentary impulse; bought at auction, it fed an enthusiasm the schoolmaster used to feel for learning music that was never fulfilled. If the impulse to purchase and play the piano was brief, its persistence as a fact of the schoolmaster舗s life beyond its usefulness is evident here at the description of moving day舒much like the marriage that remained for Jude long after the impulse that fed that enthusiasm had waned. That Hardy opens his novel with the problem of the piano seems somewhat random unless one understands it in light of the critique of marriage to come.