Es verano y el pobre Wilt sólo quiere un poco de paz. Tras esforzarse todo el año por conciliar en la escuela politécnica a profesores progresistas con otros más tradicionales ahora tiene que enfrentarse a su inmensa, intensa y combativa esposa Eva y a sus proyectos para las vacaciones. Ella ha decidido pasarlas, acompañada por las cuatrillizas, con su tía Joan, que vive en Estados Unidos. Pero Wilt quiere soledad, tranquilidad y caminar por una arcádica Inglaterra. Lo que ni uno ni otra pueden prever es que Wilt se cruzará con Ruth la Salvaje, la Señora de los Látigos, y Eva viajará en el mismo avión que Sol Campito, traficante de las drogas más vanguardistas... Tras varios años de silencio, el más divertido y mordaz escritor inglés reemprende, de forma triunfal, su cruzada contra la hipocresía y la corrección.

Fun as usual but not the best. Fizzled out when I was expecting a tour de force finish. ( )

Farce. Some complicated clever sentences but none the less a breezy read. Very rude sexual language and topics. ( )

The guy died recently and I got my hands on the last Wilt book while on holidays.

It's my first Tom Sharpe novel and I had great fun with the less salubrious side of the English language lol.

The plot seems to be slightly unsatisfactory in that it come to no real conclusion, but that does not matter because, the path to get there it's more important than the point of arrival.

I found myself laughing out loud with absurdity of the situations, although one also feels that, under certain circumstances, these things might happen for real.

It' a treat to follow how the innocent actions will lead to chaotic results, and that is where the fun lies.

This's hardly great literature, but the non-stop nonsense is very enjoyable.
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Brilliantly written and bitingly funny, Tom Sharpe's indefatigable hero is pitted against the vices of an aristocratic pervert, the merciless greed of a politician's wife and the seedy underbelly of Britain's medical facilities, deftly exposing the farcical realities of small-town England and America.