Blott on the Landscape

Resumen del libro

The landscape is flawless, the trees majestic, the flora and the fauna are right and proper, the whole is picturesquely typical of rural England at its best. Sir Giles, an MP of few principles and curious tastes, plots to destroy all this by building a motorway smack through it, to line his own pocket and at the same time to dispose of his wife, the capacious Lady Maude.
Sir Giles recruits to his side Hoskins, a corrupt local official, Lord Leakham, the environmental equivalent of a hanging judge, and Dundridge, a troublesome bureaucrat with an unhealthy passion for order. Against this powerful lobby are ranged a mere handful of local residents led by Lady Maude. Hardly at first sight a team to withstand the batteries of official inertia, Compulsory Purchase Orders and bulldozer blades. But Lady Maude enlists a surprising ally in her enigmatic gardener Blott, the Dresden born, ex-Italian naturalised Englishman, in whom adopted patriotism burns bright. Lady Maude's dynamism and Blott's concealed talents enable them to meet pressure with mimicry, loaded tribunals with publicity and chilli powder, requisition orders with wickedly spiked beer. To every official ploy Blott and Lady Maude oppose their own ingenious and unprincipled countermove until in a spectacular finale Blott, with four hundred tins of baked beans among his armoury, takes on the army single-handed.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Tom Sharpe (1928-2013) nació en Londres y se educó en Cambridge. En 1951 se trasladó a África del Sur, donde vivió hasta 1961, fecha en que fue deportado, regresando a su país, donde se dedicó únicamente a escribir. En 1995 se trasladó a Llafranc, un pueblecito del Ampurdán donde residió hasta su fallecimiento. Sus lectores se cuentan por millones en el mundo entero y goza de la merecida reputación de ser el novelista más divertido de nues tros días (The Times). En Anagrama se han publicado todas sus novelas: Reunión tumultuosa, Exhibición impúdica, Zafarrancho en Cambridge, El temible Blott, Wilt, La gran pesquisa, El bastardo recalcitrante, Las tribulaciones de Wilt, Vicios ancestrales, Una dama en apuros, ¡Ánimo, Wilt!, Becas flacas, Lo peor de cada casa, Wilt no se aclara, Los Grope y La herencia de Wilt.x{0026}lt;/p