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288 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1984

It was all insane, childish and bestial. But above all it was banal. (Wilt On High, Pan, 1984, p.346).With a finger up at political correctness, Sharpe is at times a little more than irreverent. He lambasts the education system, which harbours as many ineffectual self-serving careerists as does any corporate entity, including the police force, which has its fair share of blackly-amusing colleague-tramplers; he pokes fun at women ban-the-bomb campaigners while deferring admiration for their bravery, plain common sense and humanity, and we find Wilt - subject to all of these vicissitudes - perhaps the sanest of the bunch, with the most common sense. But that doesn’t stop him from being put through the ringer in this one.
Half the world's population is starving and the overfed half have a f***ing death-wish... (p.339).