Indecent Exposure (novel)

1973 novel by Tom Sharpe

Indecent Exposure

First edition

Author| Tom Sharpe
Language| English
Publisher| Secker & Warburg

Publication date

| 1973
Publication place| United Kingdom
Pages| 248
ISBN| 0-436-45801-2
Preceded by| Riotous Assembly
Followed by| Porterhouse Blue

Indecent Exposure is a satirical novel by British writer Tom Sharpe, originally published in 1973. The sequel to Riotous Assembly, the author's debut novel, this story also lampoons the South African police under apartheid.[1]

## Plot summary

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Set in the fictional South African town of Piemburg, where local police, headed by Kommandant van Heerden, Lieutenant Verkramp and Konstabel Els, are determined to maintain the government policy of apartheid.[2] While the Kommandant is absent at the country home of a snobbish upper class English couple, Lieutenant Verkramp enlists the help of a female psychiatrist to provide the police garrison with aversion therapy, with the aim of stopping them from fraternising with black girls.[3] However, this takes a disastrous turn and causes the entire police force of the town to identify as homosexuals. Summoned back from his vacation, Kommandant van Heerden endeavors to reinstate a sense of order.

## References

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1. ^ "Indecent Exposure".
2. ^ "Grove Atlantic".
3. ^ "Fiction Book Review: Indecent Exposure by Tom Sharpe, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $14 (247p) ISBN 978-0-87113-142-3".

* "Full Record; Riotous Assembly". Integrated Catalogue. British Library. Retrieved 25 January 2011.

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Tom Sharpe

Novels|

| Piemburg series|

* Riotous Assembly
* Indecent Exposure

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Porterhouse Blue series|

* Porterhouse Blue
* Grantchester Grind

Wilt series|

* Wilt
* The Wilt Alternative
* Wilt On High
* Wilt in Nowhere
* The Wilt Inheritance

Other novels|

* Blott on the Landscape
* The Great Pursuit
* The Throwback
* Ancestral Vices
* Vintage Stuff
* The Midden
* The Gropes

Adaptations|

* Blott on the Landscape
* Porterhouse Blue
* Wilt

Characters|

* Skullion
* Sir Godber Evans
* Lord Jeremy Pimpole

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