by Tom Sharpe · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433923349
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«El bastardo recalcitrante» is the black comedy novel by Tom Sharpe, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardcover (340 pages, in Spanish).
Lockhart Flawse, an illegitimate young man raised in Scotland by an eccentric grandfather, embarks on a cruise with him. The grandfather seeks a wife and Lockhart ends up marrying Jessica Sandicott; the old man, her mother. After the weddings Lockhart reveals his ruthless nature and wages an absurd fight against those who want to strip him of what is his.
Translation by Mónica Martín Berdagué; original English The Throwback (1978). Number 134 of the Contraseñas collection.
For readers who appreciate British social satire and black humor taken to extreme situations.
Thomas Ridley Sharpe was an English satirical novelist, best known for his Wilt series, as well as Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape, all three of which were adapted for television.
