Rhino What You Did Last Summer
AuthorPaul Howard
IllustratorAlan Clarke
Cover artistAlan Clarke
CountryRepublic of Ireland
LanguageEnglish
SeriesRoss O'Carroll-Kelly
GenreComic novel, satire
Set inDublin and Los Angeles, 2007
PublisherPenguin Books
Publication date
September 2009
Media typePaperback
Pages490
ISBN978-1-84488-177-2
823.92
Preceded byMr S and the Secrets of Andorra's Box 
Followed byThe 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]

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]

References

  1. ↑ Gorman, Clare (1 June 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. 13 December 2009.
  3. ↑ "Acclaimed McCann tops bestseller list". Independent.ie. 24 December 2009.
  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. 13 September 2015.
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