by Tom Sharpe · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433966131
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«The Great Pursuit» is the satirical novel by Tom Sharpe, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (236 pages, in Spanish).
Frederick Frensic, a literary agent in London, receives a manuscript with potential for success, but its author demands anonymity. To get around this, he turns aspiring writer Piper into his front. The plot becomes an editorial farce that crosses into the United States, with frauds, fires, demonstrations, and a peculiar Church of the Great Pursuit.
It is number 182 in Anagrama's Compactos collection, with a translation by Mónica Martín Berdagué. The work was originally published in 1977 as The Great Pursuit.
A read for fans of satire and zany humor, and for followers of Tom Sharpe.
Thomas Ridley Sharpe was an English satirical novelist, best known for his Wilt series, as well as Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape, all three of which were adapted for television.
