The Shrapnel Academy: A novel
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A weekend in the country erupts into a free-for-all of mutiny, sex, and murder On the anniversary of the Eve of the Battle of Waterloo, an assortment of unusual dinner guests gather at a remote country house to pay homage to Henry Shrapnel, inventor of the exploding cannonball. But all is not peaceful at the Shrapnel Academy: The downstairs servants, a group of third-world refugees led by a South African butler, are plotting to overthrow their upstairs oppressors. When a blizzard hits the countryside and traps everyone indoors, the rebellion erupts into bloody warfare throughout the Academy, a shrine to the ethos of military excellence. With characters that include a domineering female sergeant, a war-mongering general, a brain-damaged spy, and an idiot-savant arms dealer, Fay Weldon gives us a country house novel replete with sexual atrocity and class warfare. No one will emerge unscathed in this stinging tale of modern-day barbarians, where the deadliest weapons are the ever-raging battles between the haves and the have-nots.
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title_display | The Shrapnel Academy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Shrapnel academy [electronic resource] : A novel. Fay Weldon The Shrapnel Academy / Fay Weldon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | The Shrapnel Academy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | A novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Fiction Romance |