Wilt on High

Informationen zum Autor Tom Sharpe was born in 1928 and educated at Lancing College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He did his national service in the Marines before moving to South Africa in 1951, where he did social work before teaching in Natal. He had a photographic studio in Pietermaritzburg from 1957 until 1961, and from 1963 to 1972 he was a lecturer in History at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. He is the author of sixteen bestselling novels, including Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape , which were serialised on television, and Wilt , which was made into a film. In 1986 he was awarded the XXIIIème Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir Xavier Forneret, and in 2010 he was awarded the inaugural BBK La Risa de Bilbao Prize. Tom Sharpe died in June 2013 at his home in northern Spain. Klappentext Wilt is back - in form, and in a good deal of trouble. Henry Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable colleagues. Zusammenfassung Wilt is back - in form, and in a good deal of trouble. Henry Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable colleagues.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Sharpe
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2004
• EAN: 9780099466482
• ISBN: 978-0-09-946648-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Arrow Books; Wilt; Wilt Series; Wilt
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Satire, Humorous fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, Satirical fiction and parodies, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary