The Midden

Resumen del libro

Timothy Brights doesn't exactly live up to his name. Brought up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he can't understand why the funds have been cut off, nor why friends he recruited as Lloyds' Names no longer want to talk to him. When gambling fails, Timothy turns to embezzlement, but it's the lesser offence of helping himself to some strangely aromatic tobacco that propels him up the motorway and into bed with the Chief Constable's wife.

The Chief Constable has just survived charges of bribery and perjury and is not too concerned that his efforts to dispose of Timothy involve false imprisonment, breaking and entering, and a spot of GBH. It is only when the Chief tries to frame his old adversary, the upright Miss Midden, that things begin to go seriously wrong as his underhand ploy opens up the way to spectacular mayhem.

Biografía del autor

p strong Tom Sharpe /strong (1928-2013) nació en Londres y se educó en Cambridge. En 1951 se trasladó a Sudáfrica: allí vivió hasta 1961, fecha en que fue deportado y regresó a su país, donde se dedicó únicamente a escribir. Falleció en Llafranc, un pueblecito de l'Empordà donde residió durante mucho tiempo. Es considerado uno de los novelistas más divertidos de todos los tiempos. En Anagrama se han publicado todas sus novelas: strong em Reunión tumultuosa /em /strong , em strong Exhibición impúdica /strong /em , strong em Zafarrancho en Cambridge /em /strong , strong em El temible Blott /em /strong , strong em Wilt /em /strong , strong em La gran pesquisa /em /strong , strong em El bastardo recalcitrante /em /strong , strong em Las tribulaciones de Wilt /em /strong , strong em Vicios ancestrales /em /strong , em strong Una dama en apuros /strong /em , strong em ¡Ánimo, Wilt! /em /strong , strong em Becas flacas /em /strong , strong em Lo peor de cada casa /em /strong , strong em Wilt no se aclara /em /strong , strong em La herencia de Wilt /em /strong y em strong Los Grope /strong /em , así como su biografía strong em Fragmentos de inexistencia /em /strong , de Miquel Martín i Serra.<br>