Porterhouse Blue
by Sharpe, Tom
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0136856934
- ISBN 13
- 9780136856931
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A tight and unmarked copy-No DJ-Sound binding-" Porterhouse is a backwoods institution which is supported by fee-paying students who buy their degrees. When Sir Godber Evans becomes Master, whispers of radical change echo through the cloisters. Standing in his way is Skullion, the college porter. From the Inside Flap: The basis of a PBS miniseries, Porterhouse Blues 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."Terrific. It is light years since I read anything so original."--P.G. Wodehouse
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- Bookseller
- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21115
- Title
- Porterhouse Blue
- Author
- Sharpe, Tom
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0136856934
- ISBN 13
- 9780136856931
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall
- Place of Publication
- Englewood Cliffs, Nj
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- 8 vo
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