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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Wm Collins & Sons & Co
Publication date November 1, 1980
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780436458095
ISBN-10 0436458098
Availability§ Out of Print
Published in Great Britain
Original list price $14.95
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: With his only friend a computer, Walden Yapp has lived a singular life. Professor of Demotic History at the University of Kloone, Yapp spends his days highlighting the corrupt capitalistic nature of the upper-classes, and his nights feeding Doris his computer the information he has gathered So when capitalist Lord Petrefact hires him to write a damaging family history, Yapp seizes the chance to chronicle the corrupt life of the Petrefact family. Spurred on by his expectations of dishonesty and depravity Yapp heads of the town of Buscott, where nobody is what they at first appear to be. Now a pawn in Lord Petrefact's vindictive family game, Yapp's presence is as welcome as the plague. From provoking dwarfish marital problems to uncovering an erotic toy factory Yapp's presence sparks a chain of events that ends in death, destruction and a murder trial. Going through a car wash will never feel the same again.

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Hardcover
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from Wm Collins & Sons & Co (November 1, 1980)
9780436458095 | details & prices | List price $14.95
About: With his only friend a computer, Walden Yapp has lived a singular life.
Paperback
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With Celia Genishi (other contributor), Beatrice S. Fennimore | Reissue edition from Macmillan Pub Ltd (October 1, 1997)
9780330266352 | details & prices | 4.75 × 7.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $11.99
This edition also contains Standing Up for Something Every Day: Ethics and Justice in Early Childhood Classrooms
Cassette/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9780745162713
 
Unabridged edition from Chivers Audio Books (May 1, 1992)
9780745162713 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $69.95

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