Indecent Exposure (novel)
{{Short description|1973 novel by Tom Sharpe}}
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| name = Indecent Exposure
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| image = Indecent Exposure (Sharpe novel).jpg
| caption = First edition
| author = Tom Sharpe
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| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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| publisher = Secker & Warburg
| release_date = 1973
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| pages = 248
| isbn = 0-436-45801-2
| preceded_by = Riotous Assembly
| followed_by = Porterhouse Blue
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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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58514.Indecent_Exposure|title = Indecent Exposure}}
Plot summary
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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.groveatlantic.com/?title=Indecent+Exposure|title = Grove Atlantic}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-87113-142-3|title = Fiction Book Review: Indecent Exposure by Tom Sharpe, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $14 (247p) ISBN 978-0-87113-142-3}} 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.
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- {{Cite web|url=http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/EIQSB1ER6DJ9E5JRX63M9QEQ46SPPEEN855TJIKS4EAVCU8IAR-56081?func=full-set-set&set_number=146696&set_entry=000002&format=999|title=Full Record; Riotous Assembly|work=Integrated Catalogue|publisher=British Library|accessdate = January 25, 2011}}
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Category:South African comedy novels
Category:Secker & Warburg books
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