Blott on the Landscape - Tom Sharpe - Paperback - 1st Vintage Books ed

In Blott on the Landscape, the landscape is flawless and the trees majestic until Sir Giles, a man of few principles and curious tastes, plots to destroy all this by building a highway smack through it, to line his own pocket and at the same time to dispose of his wife, the capacious Lady Maude. Sir Giles recruits to his side Hoskins, a corrupt local official, Lord Leakham, the environmental equivalent of a hanging judge, and Dundridge, a troublesome bureaucrat with an unhealthy passion for order. Pitted against this powerful lobby are a mere handful of local residents led by Lady Maude. This explosively comic novel will gladden the heart of everyone who has ever confronted a bureaucrat. Tom Sharpe spells out in riotous detail how the forces of virtue play an exceedingly dirty game when the issue is close to home.Sharpe, Tom is the author of 'Blott on the Landscape - Tom Sharpe - Paperback - 1st Vintage Books ed' with ISBN 9780394724195 and ISBN 0394724194.