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Sprout Mask Replica

Robert Rankin

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English
Corgi
01 March 1998
The compelling story of a family of fervent God-botherers which may or may not be a family memoir and is certainly full of tall tales.

His great-great grandfather died at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

He wasn't with Custer though.

He was holding a sprout-bake and tent meeting in the field next door and went over to complain about the noise.

His great-grandfather (also a sprout farmer and man of the cloth) always wore weighted shoes while in the pulpit, to avoid any embarrassing levitations during moments of extreme rapture.

His grandfather (lay precher, large sideburns, taste for sprouts) spoke only in rhyming couplets (to please the ghost of his dead wife) and owned a pig called Belshazzar that dined exclusively upon the aforementioned vegetables and did strange things on the back parlour wall.

His father (an elder in the Sacred Order of the Golden Sprout) practised body-modification in an attempt to win a bet with his brother (a monk) that he could shin up the inside of a drainpipe.

And there was him.

And he was weird.

Can this be Robert Rankin's autobiography?

He swears that it isn't, but as a self-confessed teller of tall tales, whoever is going to believe him?
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Imprint:   Corgi
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 178mm,  Width: 106mm,  Spine: 22mm
Weight:   181g
ISBN:   9780552143561
ISBN 10:   0552143561
Pages:   350
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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