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Book Title
Porterhouse Blue
Publication Name
Porterhouse Blue
Title
Porterhouse Blue
Author
Tom Sharpe
Format
Trade Paperback
EAN
9780871132796
ISBN
9780871132796
Edition
Atlantic Monthly Press ed
Publisher
GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
Genre
Fiction
Release Year
1994
Release Date
18/01/1994
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Weight
7.5 Oz
Item Length
8.2in
Publication Year
1994
Item Height
0.6in
Topic
General, Satire, Literary, Humorous / General
Item Width
5.5in
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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The basis of a PBS miniseries, Porterhouse Blue confirms that Tom Sharpe is "an excellent writer and absolutely hilarious. His characterizations are deft, his plots are brilliant, and his prose style is smooth and winning" (P.J. O'Rourke). To Porterhouse College-bastion of a formidable crew team, lavish dining hall and wine cellar, and laughable academic standards-comes a crusading new Master. Porterhouse alumni believe in manly sports, the royal family, and brandy in the library with a fervor they bring to few intellectual positions. And the college upholds a long tradition of granting degrees to a certain number of muttonheaded young gentlemen of enviable pedigree and adequate family contribution to the school's treasury. The new Master, afire with liberal zeal, upsets everyone's digestion with a speech outlining plans to do things that simply aren't done: the admission of women, a cafeteria to replace the revered service of the kitchens, and contraceptive dispensers in every bathroom. The shock of the new and modern rattles even the college retainers. The head porter, Skullion, perhaps the staunchest supporter of the old way, rallies some powerful graduates to the cause, including the illustrious Canon Bowel and the madly wealthy-and plain mad-Sir Cathcart D'Eath. Their counterrevolutionary efforts result, among other peculiar events, in the most bizarre disaster seen at Cambridge in five hundred years, and in an escalation of threats, bluffs, and maneuvers to shame the shadiest of politicians. And the production of an investigative documentary on the strange doings at Porterhouse precipitates scandal of the highest order and an utterly unforeseeable conclusion.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0871132796
ISBN-13
9780871132796
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1031861

Product Key Features

Book Title
Porterhouse Blue
Author
Tom Sharpe
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Satire, Literary, Humorous / General
Publication Year
1994
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
224 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
7.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pr6069.H345p67 1989
Lccn
88-038005
Dewey Decimal
823/.9/14
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
19

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