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{{Short description|Novel by Paul Howard}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox book
| name             = Rhino What You Did Last Summer
| title_orig       =
| translator       =
| image            = Ross-rhino.jpg
| caption    =
| author           = [[Paul Howard (journalist)|Paul Howard]]
| illustrator      = Alan Clarke
| cover_artist     = Alan Clarke
| country          = [[Republic of Ireland]]
| language         = English
| series           = [[Ross O'Carroll-Kelly]]
| subject          =
| genre            =[[Comic novel]], [[satire]]
| publisher        = [[Penguin Books]]
| pub_date         = September 2009
| english_pub_date =
| media_type       = Paperback
| pages            = 490
| isbn             = 978-1-84488-177-2
| oclc             =
| dewey            =823.92
|set_in=	[[Dublin]] and [[Los Angeles]], 2007
| congress         =
| 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 (journalist)|Paul Howard]], and the ninth in the [[Ross O'Carroll-Kelly]] series.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eZTWCgAAQBAJ&q=%22Rhino+What+You+Did+Last+Summer%22&pg=PA64|title=The Undecidable: Jacques Derrida and Paul Howard|first=Clare|last=Gorman|date=June 1, 2015|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=9781443883597|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/angry-men-beat-bertie-on-bestseller-list-26591000.html|title='Angry men' beat Bertie on bestseller list|website=Independent.ie|date=13 December 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/acclaimed-mccann-tops-bestseller-list-26594244.html|title=Acclaimed McCann tops bestseller list|website=Independent.ie|date=24 December 2009 }}</ref>
In ''[[The Irish Times]]'', Ferdia Mac Anna wrote that it was "inexcusably shallow, deliberately [[Vulgarity|vulgar]], [[wikt:puerile|puerile]] and offensive – and it made me [[wikt:laugh like a drain|laugh like a drain]]. Indeed, there are sequences so funny that I had trouble breathing."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/inexcusably-shallow-vulgar-puerile-and-offensive-but-it-made-me-laugh-1.752607|title=Inexcusably shallow, vulgar, puerile and offensive but it made me laugh|first=FERDIA Mac|last=ANNA|newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref>
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."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/book-news/paul-howard-why-im-sooo-not-done-with-ross-31513917.html|title=Paul Howard: Why I'm 'sooo' not done with Ross|website=Independent.ie|date=13 September 2015 }}</ref>
==References==
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{{Ross O'Carroll-Kelly}}
[[Category:2009 Irish novels]]
[[Category:Penguin Books books]]
[[Category:Ross O'Carroll-Kelly]]
[[Category:Reality television series parodies]]
[[Category:Fiction set in 2007]]