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Sap Rising (Paperback)

by A.A. Gill (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Black Swan; New edition edition (1 Sep 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0552996793
  • ISBN-13: 978-0552996792
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 67,561 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A satire of manners about a garden in a West London square and the unlikely members of its garden committee.

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Sap Rising may well be a story about dark dank nature both human and vegetable and our uneasy relationship with the mystic natural forces that move the earth. It may be a parable on the fragile consensus that maintains and tends green England. On the other hand, it might just be a farcical love story set in a garden about nothing of any consequence performed by comic grotesques with a lot of swearing and unnatural sex.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Worryingly engrossing, 30 Jun 1999
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From the outset it appears that Adrian Gill has no other intention than purely to shock and revolt. Through his apathetic style he creates some extreme characters whose totally outrageous and obscene antics initially led me to wish I'd paid heed to the curt but tantalising words of warning from the Guardian on the book's front cover. As the story progresses, however, it becomes apparent that the simple plot purports to nothing more than to serve merely as a vehicle for Gill to take an almost self-deprecating satirical swipe at London's surfeit of aspiring elite, and along the way provides an evidently much-needed outlet for his sometimes overeager imagination. This novel should be accepted as nothing more than the fanciful parody of love and class that it is, readers should relax into it, and savour the pangs of incredulity and disgust that many of it's scenes will undoubtedly provoke.
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1.0 out of 5 stars How odd..., 20 Sep 2000
...one of our funniest journalists, and certainly our best restaurant reviewer (okay, not the broadest of fields), yet I had to check I wasn't reading this book upside down, which would have at least explained its utterly turgid impenetrability.

One star because I really like the picture of the fox.

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5.0 out of 5 stars If you were a pigeon, you could f**k forty times a day...., 19 April 2001
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Who can deny that a book that starts and ends with that same line is not the work of genius. So informative!! A A Gill's novel is stunning in its use of imagination, sublime use of language (the only author to rival Kyril Bonfiglioli), and for the originality of all aspects of this story. My husband and I read it twice and bought seven copies. As soon as we had finished it - we started it again. A great pity if such a talented author doesn't get his next book out soon!

Thanks Mr Gill - a real pleasure treasure.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Offensively funny. Not to be read in public.
Don't read this, like I did, in public. People are likely to think you are mad for laughing so much to yourself.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An instant classic
If you think Political Correctness is a good thing, and that vulgarity is never acceptable within the pages of a book, then I suggest you take the advice offered by `The Guardian'... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Peter Smith

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, original & funny !
An excellent book - brilliantly funny, well written, twisted and very original. His warped imagination results in one of the most memorable books I've read
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not the most enjoyable read
..This, his first novel, is outrageously funny in places, repellant in others, and memorable for being mediocre all over. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars loved this book
I picked this book up as airplane reading at Heathrow returning to the States; I had no expectations except hoping for distracting sex. I was not disappointed. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars roll over, alexander trocchi
another Scot beat Gill to it years ago. In Helen & Desire, beatnik junkie Alexander Trocchi fired off a shorter, better schoolboy squib. Read more
Published on 3 Jan 2000 by rowland.morgan@virgin.net

5.0 out of 5 stars I laughed so much my head almost fell off...
Foul, offesnsive and outrageously crude but undeniably funny. In this book, Gill does himself justice with a candid account of the upper echelons of society. Read more
Published on 31 Aug 1999

1.0 out of 5 stars A poor effort
Mr Gill has already contributed, in no small measure, to the dumbing down of The Sunday Times; now he turns his attention to contemporary English fiction. Read more
Published on 22 April 1999

1.0 out of 5 stars The Guardiuan knows best!
I was extremely disappointed with A.A. Gill's first novel. The novel is badly structured, with a rudimentary attempt at characterisation. The entire work smacks of laziness. Read more
Published on 31 Mar 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars Rather explicit but rather entertaining
Tom Sharpe in wolf's clothing, should have taken more notice of the illustration on the front cover - but would have read it anyway. Lots of lovley words. Read more
Published on 19 Feb 1999

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