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Loading... Wilt: (Wilt Series 1) (original 1976; edition 1978)by Tom Sharpe
Work InformationWilt by Tom Sharpe (1976)
![]() No current Talk conversations about this book. ![]() ![]() This is frickin hilarious. This chap named Henry Wilt is an instructor in a Technical College, in the Liberal Studies program, in Ipwell, and he teaches classes of Butcher Apprentices, Pipelayer Apprentices, Gaspipelayer Apprentices...well, you get the idea. He hands them out books like"Lord of the Flies," and he really hates his job. He hates his wife, he hates his life. Walking the dog while his wife does yoga at home, he fantasizes about murdering her. Henry Wilt will tell you"Be careful what you wish for." I will be reading Wilt No. 2. Hilarious- vulgar - great. Wilt is introduced as fed up with his students - gas and steam fitters, butchers and other working class folk in London. His wife Eva- prey to every new fad- is befriended by kinky americans for touch therapy by the wife and then some. Ultimately Wilt dreams of killing his wife by throwing her down a hole in a construction site, but practices with a wife like plastic sex doll (of the new friends). He spends most of the book in jail being questioned by police for murder while his wife slowly learns the truth about her awful new friends. Over the top, irresistible. no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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