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Harrassed by his formidable wife Eva and their five-year-old quadruplets, liberal studies professor Henry Wilt enjoys a brief flirtation with a foreign student before becoming an unintentional participant in a terrorist siege
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"A caustic, inventive comic novel." (Times Literary Supplement)
"A farce touching fingers with a rich comic vision...sublime orgiastic satire." (Guardian)
"His wit is devastating, his eye for detail exacting, his prose polished, serpentine, elegant and deadly ... as savvy and savage as Evelyn Waugh ... as dazzingly inventive and bizarrely original as P.G. Wodehouse" (Detroit News)
"Sharpe is the funniest novelist currently writing ... I sat curled up with laughter" (Time Out)
Henry Wilt, Tom Sharpe's indefatigable hero, returns to battle bureaucrats, politicians, terrorists and much more, at Fenland College.
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0312882122
- ISBN 13 9780312882129
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