The Resource The Wilt alternative, Tom Sharpe
The Wilt alternative, Tom Sharpe
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The item The Wilt alternative, Tom Sharpe represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- In this, the second of Tom Sharpe's chronicles about Henry Wilt, our hero is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats -- in addition to his wife's enthusiasm for every Organic Alternative under the compost heap and the insistence of his quadruplets on looking at every problem with an unflinching lack of sentimentality. Wilt's problems are compounded by nature in the shape of a rose bush, nostalgia, temporary infatuation with a foreign student and the hostility of medical services unwilling to attend to his most urgent needs. But it is only when Wilt becomes the unintentional participant in a terrorist siege that he is forced to find an answer to the problems of power, which have corrupted greater men than he
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 314 pages
- Note
- Originally published: Secker & Warburg, 1979
- Isbn
- 9780099466499
- Label
- The Wilt alternative
- Title
- The Wilt alternative
- Statement of responsibility
- Tom Sharpe
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In this, the second of Tom Sharpe's chronicles about Henry Wilt, our hero is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats -- in addition to his wife's enthusiasm for every Organic Alternative under the compost heap and the insistence of his quadruplets on looking at every problem with an unflinching lack of sentimentality. Wilt's problems are compounded by nature in the shape of a rose bush, nostalgia, temporary infatuation with a foreign student and the hostility of medical services unwilling to attend to his most urgent needs. But it is only when Wilt becomes the unintentional participant in a terrorist siege that he is forced to find an answer to the problems of power, which have corrupted greater men than he
- Cataloging source
- WlAbNL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1928-2013
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sharpe, Tom
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Wilt, Henry (Fictitious character)
- College teachers
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Wilt alternative, Tom Sharpe
- Note
- Originally published: Secker & Warburg, 1979
- Control code
- 000025486347
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 314 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780099466499
- System control number
- (OCoLC)59267484
- Label
- The Wilt alternative, Tom Sharpe
- Note
- Originally published: Secker & Warburg, 1979
- Control code
- 000025486347
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 314 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780099466499
- System control number
- (OCoLC)59267484
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