The Wilt Inheritance, de Tom Sharpe

Título: The Wilt Inheritance
Autor: Tom Sharpe
Editorial: Hutchinson London
 Number of pages: 328

Henry Wilt, Tom Sharpe's beleaguered hero, returns again for another hilarious dose of quickfire farce.

Stuck in a job he doesn't want -- but can't afford to lose -- as nominal Head of the Communications Department at Fenland University, Wilt is still subject to the whims of The Powers That Be, both in and outside of work. The demands of his snobbish wife Eva, and the stupendous school fees of his despicable quadruplet daughters, cause him the biggest headaches... apart from the hangovers, that is. When Eva signs him up for a summer job, teaching the gun-toting idiot son of a lusty local aristocrat, Wilt is not amused. But, as circumstances unravel and the summer goes on, Wilt sees that the situation could be put to his financial advantage, as well as giving Eva some headaches of her own.

With Tom Sharpe's famous dark humour in full evidence, and an explosive plot which takes its readers to places they never realised they wanted to visit, The Wilt Inheritance is another instant classic from the British master of farce.






Tom Sharpe (Thomas Ridley Sharpe, born March 30, 1928) is an English satirical author, best known for his Wilt series of novels.
Sharpe was born in London and moved to South Africa in 1951, where he worked as a social worker and a teacher,  before being deported for sedition in 1961. His time in South Africa inspired the novels Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure,  in which he mocks the apartheid regime. Upon returning to England, he was a history lecturer at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology,  which inspired his Wilt series  in which he derides popular English culture.
As of 2004, he was living in Llafranc, Catalonia, where he wrote Wilt in Nowhere.  Despite living in Spain he has not learned either Catalan or Spanish. "I don't want to learn the language," he says. "I don't want to hear what the price of meat is."
Several of his works became best sellers.