Книга: Tom Sharpe «Wilt On High»

Wilt On High

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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. But the even tenor of his days is rudely interrupted when the shadow of drug dealing flickers across the Tech. Suddenly Wilt becomes the target of suspicion. His colleagues believe him to be responsible for triggering a departmental inquiry, and his old adversary Inspector Flint, knowing that he's guilty of something, sees a chance to settle a number of scores. What his wife thinks is... well, what all wives think. But what none of them have reckoned with is Wilt's talent for making new enemies. What starts with an accusation of voyeurism in the staff lavatory (of the wrong gender to boot) leads, more or less directly, to a massive confrontation at a nearby US airbase with the forces of law and order on both sides and Wilt in his usual place - in the middle.

Издательство: "Random House, Inc." (2004)

ISBN: 978-0-09-946648-2

Tom Sharpe

Tom Sharpe (born 30 March 1928) is an English satirical author, born in London and educated at Lancing College and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. After National Service he moved to South Africa in 1951, doing social work and teaching in Natal, until deported in 1961.

His work in South Africa inspired the novels "Riotous Assembly" and "Indecent Exposure". From 1963 until 1972 he was a History lecturer at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, which inspired his "Wilt" series "Wilt", "The Wilt Alternative", "Wilt on High" and "Wilt in Nowhere".

His novels feature bitter and outrageous satire of the apartheid regime ("Riotous Assembly" and its sequel "Indecent Exposure"), "dumbed-" or watered-down education (the "Wilt" series), English class snobbery ("Ancestral Vices", "Porterhouse Blue", "Grantchester Grind"), the literary world ("The Great Pursuit"), political extremists of all stripes, political correctness, bureaucracy and stupidity in general. Characters may indulge in bizarre sexual practices, and coarser characters use very graphic and/or profane language in dialogue. Sharpe often parodies the language and style of specific authors commonly associated with the social group held up for ridicule.Sharpe's bestselling books have been translated into many languages.

Screen adaptations

"Blott on the Landscape" was adapted as a 6-part BBC television series in 1985, starring Geraldine James, George Cole, and David Suchet as Blott. The script was by Malcolm Bradbury and the director was Roger Bamford.

Bradbury also adapted "Porterhouse Blue" in four episodes in 1987, this time for Channel 4, starring David Jason, Ian Richardson and John Sessions, directed by Robert Knights.

A film of "Wilt" was made in 1989, scripted by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick and starring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones with Alison Steadman and Diana Quick. The director was Michael Tuchner.

Bibliography

*"Riotous Assembly" (1971)
*"Indecent Exposure" (1973)
*"Porterhouse Blue" (1974)
*"Blott on the Landscape" (1975)
*"Wilt" (1976)
*"The Great Pursuit" (1977)
*"The Throwback" (1978)
*"The Wilt Alternative" (1979)
*"Ancestral Vices" (1980)
*"Vintage Stuff" (1983)
*"Wilt on High" (1985)
*"Grantchester Grind" (1995)
*"The Midden" (1996)
*"Wilt Omnibus" (1996) - a collection of the first three Wilt novels sometimes known as "Wilt in Triplicate"
*"Wilt in Nowhere" (2004)

Источник: Tom Sharpe

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