Ancestral Vices

ISBN: 9780099435532
Author: Tom Sharpe
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This title involves left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyers. From the Publisher ‘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 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 XXXIII-me Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir Xavier Forneret. He is married and lives in Cambridge.

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