Description
The Great Pursuit by Tom Sharpe is a riotous comic novel that blends farce, satire, and literary absurdity in Sharpe’s trademark style. The story follows Grub Street literary agent Frensic, a snuff-taking, port-drinking wheeler-dealer with an uncanny nose for a bestseller. When he receives a risqué manuscript from an anonymous author, he sees an opportunity for huge profits in the US market, setting off a chain of events that is as outrageous as it is hilarious.
Frensic enlists the innocent Peter Piper to pose as the book’s author during a promotional tour across America, unwittingly plunging him into a maelstrom of seduction, confusion, and calamity. From chaotic encounters with Mrs Hutchmeyer, the eccentric “biblionut,” to a series of misadventures that escalate in absurdity, Sharpe’s novel skewers the literary world while delivering relentless comic chaos. Every scene is packed with wit, social satire, and the kind of ludicrous situations that have become his hallmark.
The Great Pursuit is ideal for readers who enjoy sharp, clever humour, literary satire, and farcical adventures that leave chaos and laughter in their wake.
