Wilt Alternative

Resumen del libro

In this, the second of Tom Sharpe's chronicles about Henry Wilt, our hero is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts x{0026} Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats -- in addition to his wife's enthusiasm for every Organic Alternative under the compost heap and the insistence of his quadruplets on looking at every problem with an unflinching lack of sentimentality. Wilt's problems are compounded by nature in the shape of a rose bush, nostalgia, temporary infatuation with a foreign student and the hostility of medical services unwilling to attend to his most urgent needs. But it is only when Wilt becomes the unintentional participant in a terrorist siege that he is forced to find an answer to the problems of power, which have corrupted greater men than he.
With a mental ingenuity born of his innate cowardice, Wilt fights for those liberal values which are threatened both by international terrorism and by the sophisticated methods of police anti-terrorist agents. In the confusion that follows, Wilt resumes his dialogue with the unflagging Inspector Flint and is himself subjected to the indignity of a psycho-political profile. Bitingly funny and brilliantly written, The Wilt Alternative exposes the farcical anomalies, which have become the social norms of our time.

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