trb@drutx.UUCP (BuckleyTR) (04/14/85)
To the two who recommended British author Tom Sharpe: THANK YOU! Yesterday on my way home from work, I picked up a copy of "Wilt" and proceeded to read it in its entirity when I get home. This was truly one of the funnier books I've read in some time. The story follows the unlikely circumstances of a burned-out liberal arts professor in a British technical school (he teaches literature to would-be plumbers and butchers, none of whom care). This professor, Henry Wilt, passes time in his dull life by fantasizing various ways of murdering his wife, whom he can't stand. Henry's wife, Eva, meets two ultra-modern swingers from America, one an impotent wimp and the other a lesbian, who start to coax Eva out of her mundane world. The swingers throw a party for like-minded super- sophisticates, to which Eva drags Henry. Henry gets caught with a blow-up sex doll, Eva leaves him and goes with the swingers, Henry practices his murder fantasies with the doll, and the whole funny story takes off. Be warned though, this book is a sexual comedy of sorts, a satire of English middle-class mores. If that's not your cup of tea, you could be offended. Has anyone else read other Sharpe they would recommend? Tom Buckley AT&T Information Systems ihnp4!drutx!trb (303) 538-3442