Wilt on High: (Wilt Series 3) by Tom Sharpe (English) Paperback Book

Description: Wilt on High by Tom Sharpe The shadow of drug dealing falls across Fenland Tech and suddenly Wilt finds himself the target of suspicion. With his talent for making new enemies, an accusation of voyeurism in the staff lavatory leads to a massive confrontation at a nearby US airbase, surrounded by the forces of law and order. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The third hilarious Henry Wilt novel from Tom Sharpe, the British master of farce and bestselling author of Porterhouse Blue.Wilt is back - in form, and in a good deal of trouble.Henry Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in The Pig in a Poke with one of his few bearable colleagues. But the even tenor of his days is rudely interrupted when the shadow of drug dealing flickers across the Tech. Suddenly Wilt becomes the target of suspicion. His colleagues believe him to be responsible for triggering a departmental inquiry, and his old adversary Inspector Flint, knowing that hes guilty of something, sees a chance to settle a number of scores.What starts with an accusation of voyeurism in the staff lavatory (of the wrong gender to boot) leads, more or less directly, to a massive confrontation at a nearby US airbase with the forces of law and order on both sides and Wilt in his usual place - in the middle. Notes New, modern cover treatment for five Sharpe comic novels. Back Cover Tom Sharpe serves up the loudest laughs in literary comedy ... He is the great post-Waugh humorist, the Wodehouse who dares plunge into the bottomless vulgarity and hysteria of our times, and a rattling good companion on a train journey Mail on Sunday Tom Sharpe is back on form ... he stays Sharpe to the bottom of the glass Sunday Times A very funny book ... it is perfect stuff, vintage Sharpe Punch Tom Sharpe is one of the funniest things that has happened to fiction recently Financial times Author Biography Tom Sharpe was born in 1928 and educated at Lancing College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He did his national service in the Marines before going to South Africa in 1951, where he did social work before teaching in Natal. He had a photographic studio in Pietermaritzburg from 1957 until 1961, and from 1963 to 1972 he was a lecturer in History at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology.He is the author of sixteen bestselling novels, including Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape which were serialised on television, and Wilt which was made into a film. In 1986 he was awarded the XXIII me Grand Prix de lHumour Noir Xavier Forneret and in 2010 he received the inaugural BBK La Risa de Bilbao Prize. Tom Sharpe died in June 2013 at his home in northern Spain. Review The funniest writer now working in the English language -- Stephen KingTom Sharpe serves up the loudest laughs in literary comedy ... He is the great post-Waugh humorist, the Wodehouse who dares plunge into the botomless vulgarity and hysteria of our times, and a rattling good companion on a train journey * Mail on Sunday *A very funny book ... it is perfect stuff, vintage Sharpe * Punch *Tom Sharpe is back on form ... he stays Sharpe to the bottom of the glass * Sunday Times *Tom Sharpe is one of the funniest things that has happened to fiction recently * Financial Times * Promotional Wilt is back- in form, and in a good deal of trouble. Review Text The funniest writer now working in the English language Review Quote The funniest writer now working in the English language Promotional "Headline" The third hilarious Henry Wilt novel from Tom Sharpe, the British master of farce and bestselling author of Porterhouse Blue . Details ISBN0099466481 Author Tom Sharpe Pages 352 Year 2004 ISBN-10 0099466481 ISBN-13 9780099466482 Format Paperback Imprint Arrow Books Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.914 Media Book Publisher Cornerstone Language English Subtitle (Wilt Series 3) Publication Date 2004-04-01 UK Release Date 2004-04-01 AU Release Date 2004-04-01 NZ Release Date 2004-04-01 Translator Robert Chandler Edited by Ana Sofia Ribeiro Birth 1969 Affiliation Research Scholar, Amal Jyothi Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, Kerala, India Position UN Under-Secretary General and Rector Qualifications QC Series Wilt Alternative 9781446474754 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:569092;

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