Wilt

Resumen del libro

Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again.
Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home where his massive wife, Eva, is given to boundless and unpredictable fits of enthusiasm - for transcendental meditation, yoga or the trampoline. But if Wilt can do nothing about his job, he can do something about his wife, in imagination at least, and his fantasies grow daily more murderous and more concrete. After a peculiarly nasty experience at a party thrown by particularly nasty Americans, Wilt finds himself in several embarrassing positions: Eva stalks out in stratospheric dudgeon, and Wilt, under the inspiration of gin, puts one of his more vindictive fantasies into effect. But suspicions are instantly aroused and Wilt rapidly achieves an unenviable notoriety in the role of The Man Helping Police With Their Enquiries. Or is he exactly helping? Wilt's problem - although he's on the other side of the fence - is the same as Inspector Flint's: where is Eva Wilt?

But Wilt begins to flourish in the heat of the investigation, and as the police stoke the flames of circumstantial evidence, Wilt deploys all his powers to show that the Law can't tell a Missing Person from a hole in the ground.

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