Porterhouse Blue book. Read reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excelle /5(). · Porterhouse Blue is a disarming satire on elitism and the upper class. Complete with a cast of characters that parody everything we come to expect from a group of sheltered privileged council members of a Cambridge college stuck in the past. Tom Sharpe masterfully blends humour with acidity. A thoroughly enjoyable read/5. · Porterhouse Blue was Tom Sharpe's third novel and the first set in England after two mocking the apartheid regime in South Africa where he had .
Here's an extract from Porterhouse Blue, a novel written by Tom Sharpe, first published in A satirical look at Cambridge life and the struggle between. Notable works. Wilt series, Porterhouse Blue, Blott on the Landscape. Thomas Ridley Sharpe (30 March - 6 June ) 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. Pembroke College, Cambridge University. Synopsis. Wonderfully rueful and utterly hilarious, Tom Sharpe's account of schemes and shenanigans in a venerable Cambridge college manages to skewer both reactionary traditionalists and self-righteous liberals. Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the.
Tom Sharpe (born ) was an English author of fiction and literature novels famously known for his Wilt novel series as well as Blott on the Landscape and Porterhouse Blue. He was born in Holloway, London and raised in Croydon. His father, Reverend George Coverdale was a Unitarian minister who actively participated in politics in the ’s. Porterhouse Blue by Sharpe, Tom and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru Porterhouse Blue is a novel written by Tom Sharpe, first published in A satirical look at Cambridge life and the struggle between tradition and reform, Porterhouse Blue tells the story of Skullion, the Head Porter of Porterhouse, a fictional college of Cambridge University.
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