Indecent Exposure (novel)

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]

Indecent Exposure
First edition
AuthorTom Sharpe
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
PublisherSecker & Warburg
Publication date
1973
Pages248
ISBN0-436-45801-2
Preceded byRiotous Assembly 
Followed byPorterhouse Blue 

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.[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
  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".


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