Wilt
Book description
This story of Henry Wilt, the Polytechnic lecturer who gets into all sorts of trouble is written by the author of "Riotous Assembly", "Blot on the Landscape" and "Wilt Alternative".
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1 author picked Wilt as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book is one of the funniest pieces of fiction I’ve ever read. After finishing this, I went out and bought every one of Sharpe’s books I could find. This book is, for me, the apotheosis of surreal British humor – about 12 hours of Monty Python condensed into a reasonable novel.
However, one doesn’t need to be a fan of Pythonesque humor to appreciate Sharpe’s tale of the beleaguered Henry Wilt. Henry hates his job and can’t stand his overbearing wife. He finally decides to take matters into his own hands, and things go terribly awry.
The way Henry…
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