- Police in fiction, Police, Fiction, Satire
With an amusing mixture of slapstick comedy and extreme irony Mr. Sharpe gives a lacerating account of the Hazelstone family's war against the cruelty and incompetence of the police force of a provincial town in South Africa during apartheid.
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Comic, resolved, classical in form and cool.
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Tom Sharpe
- First published
- 1971
- Pages
- 249
- Publisher
- Ullstein Tb, Pan Books, Atlantic Monthly Press
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780001050747
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“Piemburg is deceptive.”
Thomas Ridley Sharpe (London, 30 March 1928 – Llafranch, Gerona, 6 June 2013) was an English satirical novelist, best known for his *Wilt* series, as well as *Porterhouse Blue* and *Blott on the Landscape,* all three of which were adapted for television.
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