[Book] Wilt, Tom Sharpe
I had tried to read Wilt already twice, it’s quite a short book, but somehow I had failed to get past the first pages both times. I failed to even open it when I took it to my holidays in the beach, but I’d to come back home earlier than my friends, so I had a boring three hour bus ride ahead, which was a great opportunity to finally read it.
Wilt (Tom Sharpe, 1976) is a novel about an underachieving assistant lecturer (Henry Wilt), which grows increasingly demoralized by both his simpleminded wife (which he dreams to kill) and his frustrating experiences teaching literature to a bunch of uninterested construction apprentices in a South England community college.
Everything gets messed up when Mrs. Wilt gets lured by Sally Pringsheim’s liberal ideas, and talks Henry into attending a party hosted by the Pringsheims, a bizarre hip couple. Henry ends up with an inflatable sex doll overinflated around his genitals, and Mrs. Wilt gets extremely infuriated. From this moment the story goes wild and I won’t spoil it 