Wilt

For many readers, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom is the archetypical man of angst. I prefer Henry Wilt, the Tom Sharpe creation who debuts in this novel. Wilt teaches at the "Tech" (Lord of the Flies to plumbers), has a dimwitted and nagging wife, and gets mixed up with an inflatable sex doll (Judy) with outrageous and hilarious results. The sharp elbows on display in Sharpe's first novel in 1971 are still there in Wilt, published in 1976, but the author has now come fully into his own and buffs the prose to a high sheen.