TOM SHARPE

El salvaje humor de Tom Sharpe nunca podrá ser del gusto de todos. Sus novelas son locamente divertidas, pero también de una misantropía brutal, y no dejan indemne ningún aspecto de la vida y la cultura contemporáneas ( Michiko Kakutani , The New York Times Review of Books ). Los Grope son una familia muy antigua de Inglaterra. No exhiben ...

'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 'Wildly hilarious pot-shots at the public school system and the sacred cows of adventure fiction' Observer 'You'll enjoy this wild and, in plac...

The hilarious new novel from bestselling author Tom Sharpe. It is one of the more surprising facts about old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their ancestors built centuries before and on land that has belonged to them since before the Norman Conquest. The Gropes of Grope Hall are one such family. A brilliantly ...

In this, the second of Tom Sharpe's chronicles about Henry Wilt, our hero is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reaction...

' Tom Sharpe is in top form- outrageously funny- Left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyers - all take custard pies full in the face in this boisterous knockabout farce' The Listener 'A novelist who has broken out of the pack, established a wholly distinctive style- such a keen ...

Tom Sharpe wurde 1928 in England geboren, studierte in Cambridge, lernte als Buchhalter, Sozialarbeiter und Fotograf Südafrika kennen, bis er ausgewiesen wurde. Anschließend unterrichtete er als Hilfslehrer an einer Berufsschule in Cambridge, bis ihm der Erfolg seiner Bücher die Freiheit schenkte, mit Frau und drei Töchtern als Schriftsteller zu...

Brilliantly written and bitingly funny, Tom Sharpe's indefatigable hero is pitted against the vices of an aristocratic pervert, the merciless greed of a politician's wife and the seedy underbelly of Britain's medical facilities, deftly exposing the farcical realities of small-town England and America.

Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable colleagues. But the even tenor of his days is rudely interrupted when the shadow of drug dealing flickers across the Tech....

«Un maestro de la sátira, vengativo y furioso, el Swift de nuestros días, el rey de la caricatura más desaforada» ( Evening Standard). « Tom Sharpe es el gran señor del humor negro británico» ( Punch ). Los problemas de Wilt nunca se acaban. Quizá, como sospecha el inspector Flint, porque está dotado de un inmenso talento para enredarse ...

“Una de les coses que més sorprenen de la vella Anglaterra és que encara s’hi poden trobar famílies que viuen a la mateixa casa que van construir els seus avantpassats segles enrere, i en terres que han estat seves des d’abans de la conquesta normanda. Els Grope, de la casa pairal Grope Hall, són una d’aquestes famílies". Les dones Grope, toss...