{"product_id":"blott-on-the-landscape","title":"Blott On The Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sharpe, Tom\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Random House\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e Revised ed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 16-01-2004\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003emodel number:\u003c\/b\u003e 3284934\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 3284934\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nThe landscape is flawless, the trees majestic, the flora and the fauna are right and proper. All is picturesquely typical of rural England at its best. Sir Giles, an MP of few principles and curious tastes, plots to destroy all this by building a motorway smack through it, to line his own pocket and at the same time to dispose of his wife, the capacious Lady Maude. \u003cbr\u003e\nBut Lady Maude enlists a surprising ally in her enigmatic gardener Blott, a naturalised Englishman in whom adopted patriotism burns bright. Lady Maude's dynamism and Blott's concealed talents enable them to meet pressure with mimicry, loaded tribunals with publicity and chilli powder, and requisition orders with wickedly spiked beer. \u003cbr\u003e\nThis explosively comic novel will gladden the heart of everyone who has ever confronted a bureaucrat, and spells out in riotous detail how the forces of virtue play an exceedingly dirty game when the issue is close to home.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\nConfirms that he had inherited the mantle of the late P.G. Wodehouse. This is deliciously English comedy ―\u003cbr\u003e\nGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nExtremely funny . . . Mr Sharpe's dialogues is nifty, imaginative, enjoyable -- Peter Ackroyd ―\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Spectator\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nI laughed out loud, I really did . . . Tom Sharpe is nowhere more buoyant than when mounting catastrophic scenes of hilarious mayhem ―\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Statesman\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA very funny writer indeed . . . Tom Sharpe's comedy lies as much in his language and the pace of the dialogue as in the outrageous muddles and confusions of his comic situations ―\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Times\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThis exuberant novel will cheer all those who dislike bureaucracy ―\u003cbr\u003e\nDaily Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nTom Sharpe was born in 1928 and educated at Lancing College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He did his national service in the Marines before moving to South Africa in 1951, where he did social work before teaching in Natal. He had a photographic studio in Pietermaritzburg from 1957 until 1961, and from 1963 to 1972 he was a lecturer in History at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology.\u003cbr\u003e\nHe is the author of sixteen bestselling novels, including Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape, which were serialised on television, and Wilt, which was made into a film. In 1986 he was awarded the XXIIIème Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir Xavier Forneret, and in 2010 he was awarded the inaugural BBK La Risa de Bilbao Prize. Tom Sharpe died in June 2013 at his home in northern Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780099435471\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.8 x 5.0 x 1.1 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49098683384112,"sku":"Prakash_9780099435471","price":559.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/penguin-random-house-book-default-title-blott-on-the-landscape-38821230444848.jpg?v=1753012730","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/products\/blott-on-the-landscape","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}