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Wilt in Nowhere: (Wilt Series 4)
Tom Sharpe
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Description for Wilt in Nowhere: (Wilt Series 4)
paperback. Featuring the character who is pitted against the vices of an aristocratic pervert, the merciless greed of a politician's wife and the seedy underbelly of Britain's medical facilities, this work exposes the farcical realities of small-town England and America. Series: Wilt Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 210. Good clean copy
When his endlessly capricious wife Eva receives plane tickets for the family to visit Auntie Joan and Uncle Wally in Atlanta, Wilt knows only one thing - that nothing could entice him to fly three thousand miles over the water, and especially not two rotund Americans with more money than sense. What better way to escape and find equilibrium then to embark on a walking tour? Just Wilt, the countryside, and an ill-judged bottle of whiskey...
Meanwhile, Eva finds her plans to inherit Joan and Wally's fortune slipping away faster than her sanity, thanks to a combination of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Arrow London
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
Wilt Series
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099474135
SKU
KSG0009252
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Tom Sharpe
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Wilt in Nowhere: (Wilt Series 4)
Britain's leading practitioner of black humour
Punch
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
The funniest novelist writing today
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Punch
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
The funniest novelist writing today
... Read more