| Rhino What You Did Last Summer | |
| Author: | Paul Howard |
| Illustrator: | Alan Clarke |
| Cover Artist: | Alan Clarke |
| Country: | Republic of Ireland |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ross O'Carroll-Kelly |
| Genre: | Comic novel, satire |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Pub Date: | September 2009 |
| Media Type: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 490 |
| Isbn: | 978-1-84488-177-2 |
| Dewey: | 823.92 |
| Set In: | Dublin and Los Angeles, 2007 |
| 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]
The title refers to the film I Know What You Did Last Summer and to Ross's rhinoplasty.
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.
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]