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157: 493:: "Even half an hour after reading Tom Sharpe's 14th novel, it's difficult to remember what happened in it. ... Wilt is a victim of our times, and Sharpe doesn't seem to like them much. ... Sharpe might be happier in another age – the 18th century, perhaps – but even then he'd find plenty to rail against. It's tempting to see him as a contemporary Smollett: his plots are guided by whatever vices he feels like including, or whatever images are in his head. ... 489:: "No one, from author to critic, goes unscathed in this satire on the publishing business on both sides of the Atlantic. Agent Frensic comes across a deliciously filthy, but anonymous, manuscript that promises bestsellerdom. Frensic supplies a fake author and they are off down the primrose path. Much of this book is funny and devastatingly accurate until the plot disperses ..." More critically, Tom Payne wrote of 471:, Tom Sharpe’s grotesquely overblown satire. But even as I (truthfully) denied it, a few vignettes would slide past my mind’s eye – such as my very first Governing Body meeting, when, sombrely robed, the fellows debated, hotly and with manifest ill will, whether the vomit by the chapel was beer- or claret-based." 1550: 438:
that "Sharpe's humorous techniques naturally derive from his fundamental approach, which is that of the furious farceur who compounds anger and amusement." and "His dialogue is deft and more restrained than his characterization, which sometimes is mere caricature ..." Ashley also quotes reviews and
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said in an interview: "Tom Sharpe is very funny – but exceptionally vulgar, crude and offensive. Many view him as Britain's funniest living novelist. Most people feel that his first two novels, set in a fictionalized South Africa, are his best:
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are books that hark back to a golden age of academic dottiness, of the kind that has all but disappeared since the 1940s when Sharpe himself was a student." Caroline Moorehead writes (in a review of
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at the age of 85. He was reported to have been working on an autobiography. It was also said that he had suffered a stroke a few weeks earlier. Paying tribute, the author
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comments by many critics, and cites 21 published reviews or critical comments on Sharpe's work, with brief summaries or quotations from each.
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Sharpe moved to South Africa in 1951, where he worked as a social worker and a teacher. He was friendly with the activist and artist
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isn't Sharpe's finest work. His best tales put the reader firmly in a world: we can cherish the memories of the atavistic dons in
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wrote "The Tom Sharpe I knew was generous, acerbic, engaging, and full of wicked fun." Susan Sandon, Sharpe's editor at
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series. From 1995 onward he and his American wife, Nancy, divided their time between
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until they fell out over a woman. Sharpe's time in South Africa inspired his novels
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minister who was active in far-right politics in the 1930s. He was chairman of the
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After returning to England, Sharpe took a position as a history lecturer at the
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in 1985 and broadcast in six episodes of 50 minutes each. It was scripted by
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BBC News: Tom Sharpe, Porterhouse Blue novelist, dies aged 85 6 June 2013
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was adapted for television, again by Bradbury, in four episodes for
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for the BBC in 1977, which contained similar elements of parody.
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Sharpe died on 6 June 2013 in Llafranc from complications of
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Ashley, Leonard R. N. (March 1996). Steven H. Gale (ed.).
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A twist in author Tom Sharpe's Northumberland burial plot
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This article is about the writer. For the musician, see
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Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and its Discontents
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Tom Sharpe Collection (University of Girona Library)
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Index

Tom Sharpe (musician)
Llafranc
Catalonia
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Wilt
Porterhouse Blue
Blott on the Landscape
satirical
Wilt
Porterhouse Blue
Blott on the Landscape

Holloway, London
Croydon
Unitarian
Acton
Ealing
The Link
Nordic League
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Bloxham School
Lancing College
national service
Royal Marines
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Harold Strachan
Riotous Assembly
Indecent Exposure
apartheid
Cambridge College of Arts and Technology

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