Indecent Exposure

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Indecent Exposure is a satirical comic novel by Tom Sharpe that lampoons South African apartheid-era police and bureaucracy through farcical, darkly humorous misadventures.

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instanceOf comic novel
novel
satirical novel
author Tom Sharpe NERFINISHED
copyrightStatus in copyright
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
follows Riotous Assembly
genre black comedy
comic novel
farce
satire
hasCharacter Kommandant van Heerden NERFINISHED
Konstabel Els NERFINISHED
Lieutenant Verkramp NERFINISHED
hasFictionalLocation Piemburg NERFINISHED
hasHumorStyle grotesque exaggeration
slapstick
hasISBN 9780436272040
hasPageCount approximately 192
hasSequel none
hasTheme abuse of power
authoritarianism
bureaucratic absurdity
institutional racism
sexual repression
hasTone darkly humorous
satirical
languageStyle farcical
literaryMovement postwar British comic fiction
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature
mainSubject South African police NERFINISHED
apartheid
bureaucracy
mediaType hardcover
paperback
print
narrativeLocation South Africa NERFINISHED
notableFor critique of apartheid bureaucracy
lampooning apartheid-era South African police
originalLanguage English
partOfSeries Piemburg novels
precededBy Riotous Assembly
publicationDate 1973
publisher Secker & Warburg NERFINISHED
setting South Africa NERFINISHED
workExampleOf British farce

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Tom Sharp notableWork Indecent Exposure
subject surface form: Tom Sharpe