The Great Pursuit
Condition: Good
Notes:
In a good condition. There is some creasing to the spine. All pages are clean and intact. A few pages in the middle are starting to loosen, but all intact. See photos for more details.
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About this book:
Tom Sharpe's individual blend of robust farce and deeply cutting satire makes merry mockery of Grub Street. Frensic is a snuff-taking, port-drinking literary agent with "a nose for a bestseller. He receives a manuscript from an anonymous author's solicitor - an odyssey of lust... a filthy story with an even filthier style".
Forseeing huge profits in the US, Frensic places the book with Hutchmeyer, "the most illiterate publisher in the world", who insists that the book's author go on a promotional tour of the States. Frensic produces Peter Piper who agrees to be passed off as the author of Pause O Men for the Virgin.
An innocent abroad in the States, Piper is bedded by Mrs Hutchmeyer, a "biblionut into literacy" , and is the unwitting cause of confusion upon confusion, disaster upon disaster'.
