Porterhouse Blue

Name: Porterhouse Blue
Author: Tom Sharpe

by Tom Sharpe

Students and staff at an elite college engage in blackmail and scandal

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Tom Sharpe

Tom Sharpe was a British comic novelist whose Wilt series and Porterhouse Blue are celebrated as exemplars of savage English satirical comedy. His targets ranged from academia to apartheid-era South Africa, which he depicted in the acidic Riotous Assembly.

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