Sap Rising

By A.A. Gill

Book Overview

Buchan Gardens is a sedate square in West London. Charles Goodwin the garden committee president would like the garden to stay just the way it is. Lord Vernon of Barnstable the appalling life peer has... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385407890
• ISBN13: 9780385407892
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Satire at its sharpest

The travel writer/essayist/foodie A. A. Gill has two novels to his credit -- both brimming with wit and brilliance about British society. This one, set in an upper crust London district, is about a power struggle over a community garden, but is more about British society and its perfect eccentrics than local politics. Gill is pointed and raunchy, at times outrageous, but his satiric sense is right up there with Waugh and other vile bodies. The book is hard to find in the U.S., so grab it if you can find a copy.