num_pages: 228
description: In Red Fox Goose Green, a retired quixotic Gurkha Colonel and his faithful companions square off against the villainous Danny Dynamo, the ex-wrestler Mike Hunt, the all-charming Rita and Cossack the Canine Defender. The conflict between these two groups generates a quagmire of shifting alliances in the English village of Goose Green and, after several skirmishes, climaxes in a battle-royal in Goose Hall, where fox fights hound as personal combats are resolved. Set in the context of the fox hunting debate, this novel inverts many reverences and conventions, finally reversing the role of fox and hound as hunted and hunter.  The book is an example of rococo humour of the Tom Sharpe variety, a mix of traditional English farce, with its innuendo, and the explicit absurdity of black hullabaloo. If there is any message in the work, this is incidental or even accidental. Those who can laugh out loud, especially at other people, will join the impeccable Colonel in his quest to save the world. The quest starts here, in Goose Green.
language: English
title: Red Fox Goose Green
titlecomplete: Red Fox Goose Green
publisher: Marshall Cavendish