Rhino What You Did Last Summer

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Rhino What You Did Last Summer
Ross-rhino.jpg
Author Paul Howard
IllustratorAlan Clarke
Cover artistAlan Clarke
Country Republic of Ireland
LanguageEnglish
Series Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
Genre Comic novel, satire
Set in Dublin and Los Angeles, 2007
Publisher Penguin Books
Publication date
September 2009
Media typePaperback
Pages490
ISBN 978-1-84488-177-2
823.92
Preceded by Mr S and the Secrets of Andorra's Box  
Followed by The Oh My God Delusion  

Rhino What You Did Last Summer is a 2009 novel by Irish journalist and author Paul Howard, and the ninth in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series. [1]

Contents

The title refers to the film I Know What You Did Last Summer and to Ross's rhinoplasty.

Plot

Ross travels to Los Angeles to win Sorcha back; he and his family become reality television stars on Ross, His Mother, His Wife and Her Lover; Ross is persuaded to undergo cosmetic surgery, and Honor becomes addicted to caffeine. Fionnuala's novels begin to earn popularity in America.

Reception

The novel was the seventh highest-selling book in Ireland for the year 2009. [2] [3]

In The Irish Times , Ferdia Mac Anna wrote that it was "inexcusably shallow, deliberately vulgar, puerile and offensive – and it made me laugh like a drain. Indeed, there are sequences so funny that I had trouble breathing." [4]

Author Paul Howard later admitted that taking the action outside of Ireland was a mistake: "Ross needs to be here in an environment that he - and the reader - knows well." [5]

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References

  1. Gorman, Clare (June 1, 2015). The Undecidable: Jacques Derrida and Paul Howard. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN   9781443883597 via Google Books.
  2. "'Angry men' beat Bertie on bestseller list". Independent.ie.
  3. "Acclaimed McCann tops bestseller list". Independent.ie.
  4. ANNA, FERDIA Mac. "Inexcusably shallow, vulgar, puerile and offensive but it made me laugh". The Irish Times.
  5. "Paul Howard: Why I'm 'sooo' not done with Ross". Independent.ie.