Product Description

First meet young Lockhart Flawse from Flawse Hall on Flawse Fell. Then hear his story of gassing, whipping, blowing up, killing and stuffing - in fact, the everyday tale of a wild child of nature plunged into the genteel mock-Tudor world of surburban Surrey.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #478610 in Books
• Published on: 1997-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From AudioFile
Tom Sharpe usually skewers civilization's weak spots in hilarious dark comedy. Here, he crudely and indiscriminately slashes everything.The package actually bears a warning for offensive language, and even Matthews's engaging voice can't ease the chafed sensation that awaits the listener. D.J. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Customer Reviews

Perhaps the funniest book I have ever read.
The base premise is really simple. Guy inherits a street of houses, but they are on long leases at low rent. The only way he can earn a living is to get the residents to leave.

So he engages on a meticulously planned campaign of side-splitting terror. The methods employed to rid himself of his reluctant residents are gruesome, medieval but oh so funny.

This is Tom Sharpe at his riproaring best.

Funniest book since "A Confederacy of Dunces"
You have not experienced true laughter until you read this one! I could not believe the things Sharpe put into this book! I tried explaining to people what the book was about, but it's just not possible. If you have a "questionable" sense of humor and enjoy comedy and even a little perversion...this is the ONE you MUST read!

Demented, literary terrorism
I have been reading Sharpe for twenty five years and this is, if not the absolute best of his books, certainly the funniest and most completely anarchic. One can not help admire the protagonist who through no fault of his own has no outlet in the modern world for his undoubted abilities. All of us have at some time aspired to unfettered control of our destinies but are content to allow society to dictate the standards by which we operate. No such petty concerns trouble the throwback - he will by fair means or foul, secure his home and his family. I can only admire him, and hope that he truly exists, in his Northumbrian fastness, daring the revenue man to cross his threshold. There's a lesson here, couched in some of the most hilarious writing since Mein Kampf.