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Original Title: | Wilt |
ISBN: | 0099435489 (ISBN13: 9780099435488) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Wilt #1 |
Characters: | Henry Wilt |
Tom Sharpe
Paperback | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.95 | 10035 Users | 509 Reviews
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Title | : | Wilt (Wilt #1) |
Author | : | Tom Sharpe |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
Published | : | November 7th 2002 by Arrow (first published 1976) |
Categories | : | Fiction. Humor. Comedy. European Literature. British Literature |
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Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home where his massive wife, Eva, is given to boundless and unpredictable fits of enthusiasm -for transcendental meditation, yoga or the trampoline. But if Wilt can do nothing about his job, he can do something about his wife, in imagination at least, and his fantasies grow daily more murderous and more concrete.After a peculiarly nasty experience at a party thrown by particularly nasty Americans, Wilt finds himself in several embarrassing positions: Eva stalks out in stratospheric dudgeon, and Wilt, under the inspiration of gin, puts one of his more vindictive fantasies into effect. But suspicions are instantly aroused and Wilt rapidly achieves an unenviable notoriety in the role of The Man Helping Police With Their Enquiries. Or is he exactly helping? Wilt's problem -although he's on the other side of the fence -is the same as Inspector Flint's: where is Eva Wilt? But Wilt begins to flourish in the heat of the investigation, and as the police stoke the flames of circumstantial evidence, Wilt deploys all his powers to show that the Law can't tell a Missing Person from a hole in the ground.
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Ratings: 3.95 From 10035 Users | 509 ReviewsAssess Regarding Books Wilt (Wilt #1)
Probably one of the best books I've ever read. Smart and clever, a book that literally makes you laugh out loudSuch hilarity! Tom Sharpe comedy capers are brilliant. The TV film adaption starring Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith had me in fits. The film did the book justice. 👍🐯The vision of a naked Griff tied to a blow up sex doll! Uugh!
Better Late Than NeverScatological sarcasm is a Sharpe speciality. In Porterhouse Blue he uses it to parody Oxbridge tradition. Wilt goes for the jugular of California-chic, a somewhat more recent tradition inserting itself into British life during the 1970s. Being in a somewhat sheltered environment in the 70s educational-wise, as Wilts wife Eva might say (I spent most of that period on a ship at sea or in the semi-dream state of a married graduate student), I missed a great deal of the
I love love loved this book. I was initially not sure if I would enjoy this but it's been a long time since I read a good purely comedic novel. Wilt is dark and funny and witty (the character and the book both btw). Would highly recommend this one. What a hidden gem. Thank you so much to the very special person who bought this for me.
FIVE STARS!!! NOT A STAR LESS! This book was uproariously hilarious! A must read for anyone wanting a good laugh. Tom Sharpe was a master British satirist, up until his unfortunate death in 2013. I have now read 3 books by him, and each as good as the last if not better. I also happen to own every book he has written, and plan to read all of them once if not twice or thrice!Lewd, raunchy, and ludicrously comical are among the many words that can be used to describe this book and others. This one
This was just what I needed! The non-sense of the situation Henry Wilt creates when plotting to kill his wife, the comments of his co-workers and his students, the situation his wife goes through... It was just what I needed!
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