Riotous Assembly

Paperback, 248 pages

English language

Published April 21, 1994 by Atlantic Monthly Press.

ISBN:
978-0-87113-143-0
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OCLC Number:
14692749

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4 stars (6 reviews)

With an amusing mixture of slapstick comedy and extreme irony Mr. Sharpe gives a lacerating account of the Hazelstone family's war against the cruelty and incompetence of the police force of a provincial town in South Africa during apartheid. From the lowliest member of the force, Konstabel Els, to the senior officer, Kommandant van Heerden, they are shown to be uniformly inept and unimaginative and eventually come to rue the day they dared complain about the behavior of Miss Hazelstone or the Bishop of Barotseland.

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Subjects

  • Police -- South Africa -- Fiction.